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Trump Downplayed His Love of Coal. It's Because He Needs Florida.

"Trump’s re-election campaign is really a Florida-first strategy."

Trump didn’t save these 700 Ohio coal jobs

Whitesville, W. Va., tries to come back after the coal mines close

What We Know About the Murder of a West Virginia Coal Magnate

The executive who publicly wept after 12 miners were killed at one of his plants in 2006 was found shot to death near his wife's grave.

The True Power of Coal During West Virginia Midterms

VICE News traveled to West Virginia's third district to cover the midterm elections race between two candidates as they fight to prove who will be coal's greatest champion, and spoke with locals about coal's outsized importance in the region.