It was 1972. Leonard Nelson, president of the West Virginia Institute of Technology, decided to reorganize the college. He ...

Wikimedia Commons/Kinograms The Battle of Blair Mountain Most Americans have never heard of Blair Mountain, but in 1921 it ...

In 2024, the United States Environmental Protection Agency finalized rules targeting coal ash and wastewater pollution from ...

Ramaco, a mining company, is developing a small coal mine in Wyoming that will extract rare earth elements from the coal it ...

How does Adams describe the workers in rural Appalachia?

Clip #1: How many miners were killed in the Upper Big Branch mine disaster? Clip #1: How does President Obama describe the typical workday of the coal miners?

A bill passed this year by the West Virginia Legislature that will help maintain and strengthen the state’s coal industry went into effect this month and has been applauded by the WV Coal Association.

The new Brook Mine, though relatively small, offers a glimmer of optimism for Wyoming's coal industry as potentially the state's first new coal mine in 50 years.

A large quarry and cement plant in the hills west of Cupertino that have existed for decades are winding down operations. But work on environmental projects to clean up their past is only beginning.

The coal wars of West Virginia mark the largest labor uprising in American history. From 1912 to 1921, tens of thousands of coal miners organized and united against the oppressive coal mine operators ...