President Donald Trump gathered dozens of hard-hat-clad coal miners around him in the White House East Room. He joked about ...

a period often signified by early moves into gold (prices of the yellow metal are an eye-watering US$3300/oz), cash takeovers as sold off juniors are swallowed into growth hungry blue chips, and ...

A rich history of a bygone era in Anderson County is on display in the town of Rocky Top, originally known as Coal Creek. A unique museum shows what life was like when ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has reinstated nearly 200 workers who screen coal miners for black lung, an incurable progressive disease caused by long-term exposure to coal dust ...

but he's also doing away with NIOSH that helps the safety of the coal miners," Tennant said. The budget for NIOSH was about $363 million in 2023, the same year that job injuries and illnesses cost ...

Coal mining in West Virginia, meanwhile, spent the ensuing years in a political fight that Republicans largely won. As a 2016 presidential candidate, Hillary Clinton was slammed f ...

Retired coal miner ... ll wake up. It may already be too late.” Congress created MSHA within the Department of Labor in 1978, in part because state inspectors were seen as too close to the ...

but he's also doing away with NIOSH that helps the safety of the coal miners," Tennant said. The budget for NIOSH was about $363 million in 2023, the same year that job injuries and illnesses cost ...

The Trump administration's cuts to the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health have gutted crucial programs affecting millions of workers across the U.S. Jericka Duncan reports on ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WCHS) — Kanawha County coal miner Harry Wiley was diagnosed with black lung last November and is still working underground where the severity of his condition could get worse.