Sam Kimball

Freelance Journalist

Sam Kimball is a freelance journalist based in the United States.

November 18, 2025

Can West Virginia go green as Trump backs coal mining?Just Transition

A drone view shows coal being prepared for transport, along the Kanawha river outside of Charleston, West Virginia, March 19, 2025. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein

Working in a verdant valley in southeastern West Virginia, Donnie Hairston restacks beehive boxes overturned by a bear and tries to lure wayward goats out of a chicken coop.

He is a participant in Economic Development Greater East (EDGE), an initiative promoting projects in a region left impoverished by the drop in coal production.

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