Core Natural Resources will idle operations at its Itmann mine in West Virginia in August, citing weaker than expected market ...

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 ...

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 ...

When the federal government tried to fire a team protecting coal miners from Wyoming to West Virginia from black lung disease, a miner filed a lawsuit. Last week, a federal judge ordered the ...

This roundup of energy news headlines comes from our Southeast Energy News newsletter. Sign up to get it in your inbox each morning. Virginia and federal officials have spent tens of millions of ...

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 (AP) — A judge on Tuesday ordered the restoration of a health monitoring program for coal miners in West Virginia and rescinded layoffs the federal government implemented in a ...

ALUM CREEK, WV (WOWK) — The public will be able to learn more about the Forks of Coal State Natural Area Master Plan at a public hearing. The West Virginia Division of Natural Resources’ master plan ...

In 1924, coal mining in America was at its peak, employing over 860,000 miners. Today, employment numbers are slightly over 40,000. Want more proof that the industry is on the decline? Just take a ...

protections for West Virginia’s workers who hold the second-deadliest workplace fatality rate in the country. Black lung: a class based disease One-in-five coal miners in central Appalachia suffer ...

2:12 Blood Tribe announces opposition to new coal mines in eastern slopes The project, located on an inactive legacy coal mine site in the Municipal District of Ranchland, was revived two years later.

China has deployed a fleet of autonomous electric mining trucks at the Yimin open-pit coal mine in Inner Mongolia. The operation, led by state-backed energy giant Huaneng Group, includes 100 ...

Congress has tucked an 800-acre expansion of an underground Montana coal mine into a budget reconciliation bill that cleared its first committee vote last week. A two-page provision of the Natural ...