Appalachia starts long, scary slog beyond mining Manuel Quiñones

COAL:Appalachia starts long, scary slog beyond miningManuel Quiñones, E&E reporterGreenwire: Tuesday, March 17, 2015Chuck Fluharty parachutes into busted rural economies and tries to figure out how to get them out of the ditch. His latest challenge: Appalachia. Fluharty’s Rural Policy Research Institute is focused on eastern Kentucky, whose coal fields have bled thousands of jobs …