Mining is an important part of American history, but not one that many people get to explore in person. This spot in Kentucky ...

The prospect of shutting down mine safety offices in Kentucky coal country — while refusing to communicate about what that will mean for mine safety — is cruel and callous. It makes no sense ...

Promising to end the “war on beautiful, clean coal,” President Trump signed executive orders to buoy the industry. But energy ...

At the White House, President Trump recently signed four executive orders to fight back on the wrongheaded policies of the ...

President Donald Trump granted exemptions last week from some pollution safeguards to dozens of coal- and oil-burning power ...

leaving only two offices to inspect and monitor more than 100 mines in Kentucky. Taken together, these moves threaten to bring more disease and death to coal-dependent communities across ...

many of them underground operations in West Virginia and Kentucky, which have nearly half of the nation’s coal mines. Under the second Trump administration, the impact inspections have stopped.

The industry also marred Kentucky’s lands and waterways and sickened generations of miners with mine-related illnesses, including Black Lung Disease. Over time, tightly-gripped reliance on coal ...