A judge has ordered the restoration of a health monitoring program for coal miners in West Virginia and rescinded layoffs in a unit of a small U.S. health agency ...

As a child, Sable saw the economic prosperity ... 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 ...

Two West Virginia coal miners with black lung disease testified before a federal judge on Wednesday during a hearing on the Trump administration’s decision to effectively shutter a program that ...

Morgantown, West Virginia — In West Virginia's coal country, Marion Tennant says he was destined to work in the mines. "That was the only thing in this area when I graduated high school ...

When the federal government tried to fire a team protecting coal miners from Wyoming to West Virginia from black lung disease ...

U.S. District Judge Irene C. Berger said Trump administration officials lack the authority to unilaterally cancel the ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A judge on Tuesday ordered the restoration of a health monitoring program for coal miners in West Virginia and rescinded layoffs the federal government implemented in a ...

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