He also cited a 2017 federal court settlement between a West Virginia couple and Pinnacle Coal ... eight active lawsuits filed by Mullens. State officials stated that no longwall mining had ...

A bulldozer operator moves coal at a train loading facility for the Arch Resources Lear South mine in Barbour County, West Virginia ... a defendant in the eight active lawsuits filed by Mullens.

The growing blaze moved the mine to the top of a list of thousands of problem decades-old coal sites in West Virginia awaiting cleanup and vying for limited federal funds. State officials say $4.5 ...

Hatfield, a retired coal miner, raised two boys in the house a few miles from the West Virginia ... s active work company-wide is reclamation,” it said. Alpha offloaded mines that were later ...

Ed Evans, Democratic West Virginia delegate and retired public ... across railroad tracks where trains still move tons of coal. There are no active mines in Havaco now, but families who lived ...

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 ...

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 ...

according to the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), by improperly discharged mine water from the Pinnacle Mining Complex, which entered local waterways. Coal companies are ...

Woman Dies in West Virginia's Second Reported Coal Mining Fatality of 2024 CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A West Virginia woman died Wednesday more than a week after an accident at a southern West ...

A judge has ordered the restoration of a health monitoring program for coal miners in West Virginia and rescinded layoffs in a unit of a small U.S. health agency ...