The Trump administration has cut programs that protected workers from lung disease, aided those afflicted, and kept miners ...

When the Trump administration moved to shutt mine safety offices and shutter a program that protects miners from black lung ...

But many in mine country fear that Trump – who won 70 percent of West Virginia’s vote in 2024, with equally strong support among the mining regions across Appalachia – is boosting the coal ...

President Donald Trump gathered dozens of hard-hat-clad coal miners around him in the White House East Room. He joked about ...

Appalachia and coal miner advocacy groups celebrated that dozens of MSHA offices that were scheduled to close will now remain open.

Coal power costs skyrocketed 28% since 2021, as aging plants and fuel get more expensive, forcing consumers to pay billions ...

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 ...

The last remaining Democratic state senator in rural Kentucky just announced she’s switching parties. Robin Webb’s partisan ...

Trump said he calls it “beautiful, clean” coal ... protecting the safety and health of miners requires diligence. He’s executive director of the Appalachian Citizens’ Law Center ...

The Trump administration appears to have backtracked on an earlier decision to close more than 30 offices that enforce mine ...

Trump said he calls it “beautiful, clean” coal. “I tell my people never ... But Addington also said protecting the safety and health of miners requires diligence. He’s executive director of the ...

By 2018, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimated that the lungs of about 1 in 5 coal miners in central Appalachia showed evidence of black lung. It is being diagnosed in younger ...