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Mountaintop coal mine in Kentucky to become a solar farm

Mountaintop coal mine in Kentucky to become a solar farm  Yale Climate Connections

Across Appalachia, coal mines are closing. And people are trying to figure out what to do with former mine lands, including mountaintops that were blasted off to get to the coal underneath.

Albrecht: “So you end up with this almost like plateau-like landscape … with hundreds of acres at a time that are almost pancake flat.”