Damn the parachutes, the story of coal communities in crisis needs to be told by reporters who live in coal country and who are invested in the future of these rural areas. In 2020, I teamed up with reporter Mason Adams, WyoFile and Energy News Network to produce “Transition in Coal Country.” The six-part series examines Wyoming and Appalachia; a story about coal’s decline in rural America, and about how these communities might survive beyond coal. The project was supported by the Just Transition Fund. The series is available as an ebook, “Reckoning In Coal Country,” at Amazon.