One of hundreds of unregulated coal mines in eastern India, where miners without protective clothing lie on their backs in low-ceilinged, unsupported passageways using a pick and shovel to load carts.


Photo: © Robb Kendrick


Below: Loaded railcars line up to fill waiting ships at a terminal near Norfolk, Va., where 20 million tons of coal — about 2 percent of U.S. production — pass through each year, most of it from Appalachia.


Photo: © Robb Kendrick


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