Southerly Magazine: "As coal disappears, Appalachians lose access to basic services"

Southerly Magazine published an article yesterday outlining the difficulties facing coal communities today, and ACLC attorney Mary Cromer provided some insight into why this happens below.
“You can have low-level corruption and bad management, and things go along fine as long as you have coal severance money coming in to right the ship,”  said Mary Cromer, a lawyer with the Appalachian Citizens’ Law Center who represents the Martin County Concerned Citizens. “But we’re in the position now where the coal severance money is gone.”
Read the full article here.