Stephen Fields of Chauncey was drilling a test hole in a coal seam when the rock came loose from a highwall due to freezing ...
“The West Virginia Highlands Conservancy has a 55-year history of ... “It is deeply disappointing that the Forest Service and the Fish and Wildlife Service have enabled South Fork Coal Company's ...
Advocates want federal regulators to shut down what they say is an illegal coal haul road in West Virginia's Monongahela National Forest. South Fork Coal Company obtained a state mining permit in ...
The demand for clean water in McDowell County is but one element of a groundswell of community-based activism to reclaim and ...
WHEELING — New West Virginia Sen. Chris Rose hasn’t even sat down yet as chairman of the Senate Energy, Industry and Mining ...
WASHINGTON— Conservation groups sued the U.S. Forest Service today for failing to protect streams in the Cherry River watershed from the harmful effects of coal hauling in the ... program director of ...
West Virginia-based coal mining company White Forest Resources filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in Delaware, ...