This in-depth multimedia report explores how coal, lead and zinc mining in southeast Kansas left the land and local residents scarred and poisoned with pollutants. The report garnered the top prize in the 2007 Associate Press Managing Editors Online Convergence Award. After Mining’s Legacy was published, state and federal officials began looking for solutions to [...]
These photographs are part of a multimedia presentation that won first place in the the 2007 Associated Press Managing Editors Online Convergence category. You can see the reportage at LJWorld.com and read more about the project here.