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

How about if the waste from doing it is dumped straight into mountain streams? Mountaintop removal is a radical form of coal mining in which the tops of mountains are literally blasted off to access .

Chris Hamilton, senior vice president at the West Virginia Coal Association ... support and mine emergency preparedness functions as oppose to mine inspectors being laid off.” ...

The country's top mine safety expert was part of a panel that appeared Tuesday afternoon in a Senate hearing about the recent explosion that killed 29 West Virginia coal miners in the worst U.S ...