Among the hardest-hit states was West Virginia, where large-scale coal mining began in the mid-1800s. Over the past decade, West Virginia has lost a greater percentage of its residents than any ...

A judge ordered the restoration of a health monitoring program for coal miners in West Virginia and rescinded layoffs.

kicking up against West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee and North Carolina. Timber and coal mining began transforming the region in the late 1800s, drawing workers to ramshackle towns where the jobs ...

Morgantown, West Virginia — In West Virginia's coal country, Marion Tennant says ... at the facility — from the people who oversee mine safety to those who study cancer-causing chemicals ...

Nixon 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. Under the law ...

Plaintiff Harry Wiley, a West Virginia mine electrician who has worked in coal mines for 38 years, was diagnosed with early-stage black lung last November. Canceling the health surveillance progra ...

Appalachia and coal miner advocacy groups celebrated that dozens of MSHA offices that were scheduled to close will now remain open.