In 2016, Trump seized on the issue, promising to end what he described as Democratic President Barack Obama’s “war on coal” ...

Yet mining claims still exist within national parks and monuments, and new projects are rapidly advancing across the West. The problem lies ... damaged by heavy metals. Abandoned mines, including over ...

The winner of this year’s West Virginia Coal Festival teen beauty pageant walks among the ruins of a community abandoned 70 ... orders to allow mining on federal land and to loosen some ...

The coal industry once provided more than half of U.S. electricity production. But it has been in steep decline for decades ...

today announced the acquisition of the Fola Mine Complex located in central West Virginia, from AppleAtcha Land, LLC (“AppleAtcha”) and WV Reclaim Co, LLC. The Fola Mine Complex was one of the ...

(AP) — The winner of this year’s West Virginia Coal Festival teen beauty pageant walks among the ruins of a community abandoned ... orders to allow mining on federal land and to loosen some ...

The winner of this year's West Virginia Coal Festival teen beauty pageant walks among the ruins of a community abandoned 70 ... issued orders to allow mining on federal land and to loosen some ...

(AP) — The winner of this year’s West Virginia Coal Festival teen beauty ... to “save coal,” issued orders to allow mining on federal land and to loosen some emissions standards meant ...