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

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

One of Brazil's last coal plants roared back to life in July after a powerful business group invested millions to keep its turbines turning in the southern mining town of Candiota.

Drainage from abandoned coal mines can carry massive loads of carbon dioxide, venting to the air decades or even centuries ...

President Trump has been a cheerleader for coal miners. But these miners say his administration is failing to enforce limits on a lethal workplace hazard. Gary Hairston, 71, is a retired coal miner ...

For the past 250 years, people have mined coal industrially in Pennsylvania, U.S.. By 1830, the city of Pittsburgh was using ...

After 100 days, Trump's vow to boost coal belies cuts to miner health programs. For John Robinson, a retired coal miner who spent his career in the Virginia mines helping to power America into the ...

The Canadian province of Alberta on Monday reversed a decision that expanded access to the eastern slopes of the Rocky ...

India has over 500 officially identified abandoned coal mines. Many of these old pits, especially in Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, ...

Russia has launched yet another attack on a Dnipropetrovsk Oblast coal mine belonging to DTEK, the largest private energy company in Ukraine. The use of site materials is allowed only with a reference ...

This year has been a roller-coaster ride for a two-story home on West C Street in Belleville that was known as “Maule Mansion” when it was built for a coal-mining mogul in 1878. In April, a St. Clair ...

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