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

The president’s voters in West Virginia like his championing of the industry yet worry about possible curbs in mine ...

At least some workers at the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health are getting back to work this week after ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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, where a majority ...