The Interior Department plans to repeal Biden-era protections across the state’s ecologically sensitive North Slope.

It is becoming increasingly apparent that traditional empirical pillar design approaches alone might not be adequate at depths outside the current Australian underground coal database. Cartledge ...

The Trump administration is dropping plans to terminate leases for 34 offices in the Mine Safety and Health Administration. A ...

Remarkable as a landscape shaped over three centuries of coal extraction from the 1700s to the 1900s, the site consists of 109 separate components over 120,000 ha. It features mining pits (the oldest ...

In the heart of Appalachia, where coal mining has shaped both the land and the lives of its people, a movement is taking root ...

BEIJING (AP) — Water rushed into a coal mine in northwestern China’s Gansu province, leaving three workers dead, official state news agency Xinhua reported Tuesday. There were 133 people working in ...

They also embody the heart and soul of what it means to be from here, from Appalachia. That Bill Withers ‘Lean on Me’ coal-camp spirit drives them to always be calling out to help neighbors and folks ...

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Nearby, mining counties across Virginia’s slice of Appalachia were reeling after decades of job loss. Mr. Stacy and his friend Jim McGlothlin, both former coal magnates, seized on what they ...