2008-05-15
Rolling in the Black, for Now. By Jane M. Von Bergen, Philadelphia Inquirer, May 15, 2008. "All night and day, trains rumble through the hills and valleys of Greene County [Penn.], where coal is king and the rails carry away the crown jewels, 42 million tons of black bituminous a year, now fetching double its price of just two years ago. No other county in Pennsylvania produces more coal than Greene, population 39,808, about an hour's drive southwest of Pittsburgh. And few places feel coal's impact like this county... [where] sometimes mining companies buy up whole hamlets to avoid dickering with homeowners over damage."
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