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

When miners protested Trump’s move to shutter safety offices and a health program for black lung disease, his administration reversed course.

As detainments and deportations cause many travellers to turn away from America, Annabel Grossman journeyed deep into the heart of Trump country to discover if tourism could be an unexpected force to ...

Appalachia and coal miner advocacy groups celebrated that dozens of Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) offices that were scheduled to close will now remain open, the Trump administration ...

Trump administration reverses course on plan to close more than 30 mine safety offices, although two in Kentucky still are ...

Inside Appalachia, a West Virginia man is reviving a Black coal camp through farming. Also, the legacy of Affrilachian poet ...

There are no funds to operate a mobile X-ray unit and the agency is missing contract workers to read chest X-rays.

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

Some offices are still listed on the chopping block on the DOGE website, but the statement did not indicate whether those closings will move forward.

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 ...