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What does the future look like for energy production and job opportunities in southwest Virginia? Watch our interview with solar energy executive Ryan McAllister, CEO of Secure Futures, and Daniel Kestner, economic development and program manager at the Virginia Department of Energy. They offer insights on the coal industry in Virginia as well as efforts for environmental stewardship.

Looking west from Hazel Mountain, Brad Kreps can see forested hills stretching to the Tennessee border and beyond, but it is the flat, denuded area in front of him he finds exciting.

Six new solar plants on former Virginia coal mines are among the first such projects in the United States - and could help fossil-fuel communities shift to a greener...

Looking west from Hazel Mountain, Brad Kreps can see forested hills stretching to the Tennessee border and beyond, but it is the flat, denuded area in front of him he finds exciting. Surface coal mining ended on this site several years ago. But with a clean-up underway, it is now being prepared for a new…

Disturbed land a smart place to put solar, authorities say, and clean energy offers tax income to areas hit by coal mine losses