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A Kent kitchen supplier that recently stopped selling high-silica quartz has now launched a petition calling for a UK ban.

This week on Inside Appalachia, Rev. George Mills Dickerson of Tazewell, Virginia was born in the years after slavery ended. He’s remembered today through his poetry. And a new wave of black lung disease is ravaging Appalachia. We’ll hear more from a black lung town hall in Whitesburg, Kentucky. Coal miners have their own thoughts about black lung, too.

The latest documentary from Elaine McMillion Sheldon — a filmmaker with deep coal-mining roots — draws viewers in with "elements of fable and magical realism.”

Each year the Emory & Henry Literary Festival celebrates an outstanding Writer with ties to Appalachia. Contact E&H to learn more!

Coal is fading fast from our energy industry. But in areas where it's been dominant for generations, that takes a toll. Our King Coal review:

From the truth about plastic recycling, to the decades-long failure to confront the threat of climate change, these documentaries are essential Earth Day viewing — and they're all available to stream online now.

With a new IPCC report out and a new FRONTLINE series on climate change premiering, revisit 10 years of documentaries on environmental threats.