NYT: A Battle in Mining Country Pits Coal Against Wind

August 17th, 2010 · No Comments

LORELEI SCARBRO’S husband, Kenneth, an undergroundcoal miner for more than 30 years, is buried in a small family cemetery near her property here at the base of Coal River Mountain. The headstone is engraved with two roosters facing off, their feathers ruffled. Kenneth, who loved cockfighting, died in 1999, and, Ms. Scarbro says, he would have hated seeing the tops of mountains lopped off with explosives and heavy machinery by mining companies searching for coal.

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