Advocates for coal miners and their families say they are worried about recent cuts to federal programs that oversee mine health and safety. The Department of Government Efficiency has cancelled the ...

It doesn’t take much for a century-old mine shaft to cave in around you. Or for the mercury, lead or arsenic leftovers to ...

Saturday marks the 15th anniversary of the deadliest mine disaster in more than half a century at the Upper Big Branch mine.

Linda Slovernick’s husband works at the Kemmerer coal mine that recently laid off 28 workers. Though he survived the cut, her ...

The West Virginia Legislature is considering redefining the meaning of “public property.” In essence, West Virginians will no ...

Without programs provided by NIOSH, people in the mining industry and researchers are scrambling to find what else can be done to serve coal miners in our region.

"Our acquisition of the Fola Mine Complex is by far the most significant acquisition in the history of the Company, and ...

An attorney at a West Virginia University legal services unit that focuses on quality-of-life improvements through land and water conservation admitted before she began speaking that she might get ...

China dominates global critical mineral extraction and processing, but President Trump has developed a path to secure U.S.

While the ability to pull enough minerals from these sources to power the energy transition is still a long way off, ...

Mary West is an Army veteran who lives in Beckley, in southern West Virginia’s coalfield. She used to work in the mines, in about 1980, for Ranger Fuel and Pittston Coal in Raleigh County. West called ...