Lisa Emery, a respiratory therapist, is deeply concerned about West Virginia coal miners suffering from black lung disease ...

State and local official say a flood inside an underground West Virginia coal mine has trapped a miner inside, and rescue crews have been pumping water out to get to him ...

The Trump administration on Thursday expanded a list of critical minerals it deems essential to the U.S. economy and national ...

Deep in the hills of West Virginia, coal mining and the dangers that come with it have been a part of families’ lives for ...

Ahead of the 2016 presidential election, coal country came out in droves to support Donald Trump, who promised rural America a mining revival. Nine years later, some coal miners are saying they are in ...

Retired coal miner Emory “Curly” Carter, 70, with his wife, Ida Mae Carter, 70, at their home on April 15, 2025, in Madison, W.V. It is unclear if they are part of the black lung protests. Ahead of ...

The updated list serves as a blueprint for US efforts to secure materials essential for defence, manufacturing and clean ...

Miners, their supporters and medical experts rallied in Washington, calling on the Trump administration to enforce black lung protections. Outside of the Department of Labor on Tuesday morning, ...

Can Cows and Solar Power Coexist? We’re About to Find Out After Decades of Protections, Green Sea Turtles Have Been Saved From the Brink of Extinction—for Now AI Is Decoding Whales’ Communications.

U.S. officials rejected a mining company’s bid for more than 6 million tons of coal beneath a national forest in Utah, marking the third proposed coal sale from public lands in the West to fall ...

Stephen C. Cawood, a Pineville lawyer who died at 82, was a lifelong advocate for Kentucky's Appalachian region. Cawood represented people victimized by the coal industry and helped draft key state ...

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Federal officials rejected a mining company’s bid for 1.3 million tons of coal beneath a national forest in Utah, marking the third proposed coal sale from public lands in the ...