States such as West Virginia were left limping after mines closed ... on the negatives. “Coal has been the lifeblood of West Virginia’s economy,” he said, ticking off a long list of uses ...

Hopes that Donald Trump's executive orders will revive the coal industry have been tempered by the administration's cuts to mine safety programs. HOME MAIL NEWS SPORTS FINANCE CELEBRITY STYLE MOVIES ...

FOSTER, West ... off workers who organized a rally in Morgantown on April 23. Meanwhile, Harry Wiley, a West Virginia coal miner, filed a federal lawsuit alleging he is unable to process his mine ...

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 ... they’ll be ripped down ...

Lawyer Hunter Mullens is representing a retired couple after an explosion at their West Virginia ... of coal behind as support, longwall mining uses a large-bladed machine to shear off a slice ...

He was 86. In 2010, an explosion in a coal mine near Montcoal, in West Virginia's Raleigh County, killed 29 workers. In 2016, San Francisco became the first U.S. city to mandate six weeks of fully ...

Countermeasures to President Donald Trump's 10% tariff have some West Virginia coal producers on edge as China fired back with a 15% tariff on coal imports. The Mountain State exports about 6 ...

While running his coal company Bluestone, Governor Jim Justice ushered the mines of West Virginia deep into the grasp of global ... a process of removing a mountain top — “overburden,” in industry ...

In the early morning light, it’s easy to mistake the towering gray mounds for an odd-looking mountain ... “Coal Pays the Bills,” a magnet reading, “Prove you’re against coal mining: Turn ...

Hyre Stalnaker was working in the carpenter shop at the coal mines ... off. That is what Monongah looked like.” West Virginia and Regional History Center West Virginia and Regional History ...