The fatality rate among miners, especially those working in coal shafts deep underground, varies from year to year. A single mining disaster, like the one that happened this week in West Virginia ...

Trump administration reverses course on plan to close more than 30 mine safety offices, although two in Kentucky still are ...

In one of the most convoluted lawsuits of all time, a cabal of state attorneys general and the Federal Trade Commission are ...

The president said he's using the Defense Production Act to "turbocharge" coal mining in America. Mr. Trump also said his administration is working through the legalities of making it harder for ...

The strike at the Warrior Met Coal mine was one of the longest in U.S. history, but the price of coal soared during the walkout, giving the company leverage. By Michael Corkery Hundreds of coal ...

In response to a lawsuit from environmentalists, the Biden administration is ending new leases for coal mining on federal lands in the most productive part of America's top coal producing state.

Right-wing media jumped to defend four recent executive orders signed by President Donald Trump to bolster the dying coal industry, telling viewers that reviving what they often incorrectly called ...

America’s natural-resource policy in the ... the administration of President Joe Biden on leasing federal land for coal mining. The entire federal mining program needs to be modernized to ...

“Neither candidate is helping coal miners,” said Bates with the United Mine Workers of America. “A lot of members, and a lot of coal miners right now, are scared about what the future hold ...