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

The winner of this year's West Virginia Coal Festival teen beauty pageant walks among the ruins of a community abandoned 70 ...

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 ...

Nixon. In 1969 he signed into law the Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act after public outcry over a mine explosion the previous year in Farmington, West Virginia, that killed 78 workers.

In West Virginia, which employs the most miners of any state, the number of coal jobs fell from 11,561 at the start of his presidency to 11,418 at the end of 2020, perhaps slowing coal’s steep ...

Ava Johnson knows West Virginia coal will not ever be what it once was. But as she makes her way along overgrown railroad tracks near the abandoned Kay Moor mine in the New River Gorge National ...

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 ...

In 2016, Trump seized on the issue, promising to end what he described as Democratic President Barack Obama’s “war on coal” and to save miners’ jobs. It helped in West Virginia ...