Appalachia faces steep coal decline

Associated Press: When business screeched to a halt at Jerry Howard's eastern Kentucky mine engineering company two years ago, he decided to call it quits after four decades in the coal industry. "We were sort of forced out," Howard says of the former company, Walturn, where he was part owner. Business owners like Howard, politicians and miners in the hilly coalfields of Central Appalachia blame the industry decline on tougher regulation from the Obama administration. They aren't as ready to talk about something......

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