Such operations employed around 6,900 West Virginia miners ... such as requiring coal companies to repair damage to homes or certain other structures or to compensate the homeowners, said Joe ...

Coal miners in West Virginia are going viral and receiving praise for restoring a road in North Carolina. The unnamed West Virginia coal miners helped restore access to a 2.7-mile stretch of ...

State regulators pulled a permit for a surface mine tied to West Virginia Republican Sen. Jim Justice’s family, citing a string of ongoing, unaddressed violations. A coal mine in West Virginia ...

Republicans have blamed environmental regulations enacted during the Obama and Biden administrations for the downfall of the country’s coal industry. States such as West Virginia were left ...

The coal industry ... in the state of West Virginia and has for decades. Most West Virginians have a coal miner or two somewhere in the family and in a lot of cases, mining runs through several ...

The state also has 15 percent of recoverable coal at U.S. producing mines, equaling around 1.8 billion short tons. Most of West Virginia’s coal production comes from underground mines ...

West Virginia Coal Festival teen beauty pageant winner Ava Johnson, 16, collects small pieces of coal left behind at the former Kay Moor coal town and camp in the New River Gorge National Park and ...

losing access to those crucial services was a lethal threat for the coal miners who depend on them. For West Virginia miners like Harry Wiley, who served as lead plaintiff on the class action ...

“The heart and soul of West Virginia are found in our coal miners, and today, we grieve the loss of one of our own,” the governor said. The statement did not disclose further details about the ...

Two West Virginia coal miners with black lung disease testified before a federal judge on Wednesday during a hearing on the Trump administration’s decision to effectively shutter a program that ...

"The heart and soul of West Virginia are found in our coal miners, and today, we grieve the loss of one of our own," the governor said. The statement did not disclose further details about the ...

GRAFTON, W.Va. — A coal miner died Friday, nearly a week after being injured on the job in northern West Virginia, officials said. Colton Walls, 34, of Bruceton Mills, was injured while working ...