Hopes that Donald Trump's executive orders will revive the coal industry have been tempered by the administration's cuts to ...

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

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

Josh Cochran worked deep in the coal mines of West Virginia since he was 22 years old, pulling a six-figure salary that allowed him to buy a home with his wife Stephanie and hunt and fish in his ...

The winner of this year’s West Virginia Coal Festival ... abandoned Kay Moor mine in the New River Gorge National Park looking for spikes for her collection, the 16-year-old history buff says ...

American Electric Power’s John Amos coal-fired plant in Winfield, W.Va, is seen from the town of Poca across ... the nation’s 560 coal mines are located in West Virginia (165) and Kentucky ...

The winner of this year's West Virginia Coal Festival ... abandoned Kay Moor mine in the New River Gorge National Park looking for spikes for her collection, the 16-year-old history buff says ...

West Virginia employed the most miners at 14,000, followed by Kentucky at 5,000. About half of the nation’s 560 coal mines are located in West Virginia (165) and Kentucky (112). Despite having ...