The legacy of coal is not beautiful nor clean. Coal destroys lives. It's time to move on from an industry that exploits ...

Miners and their advocates worry that DOGE's cuts to the Mine Safety and Health Administration will put them at risk.

The so-called Department of Government Efficiency wants to cancel leases at mine safety offices across the nation. Safety ...

The termination of leases for at least 33 mine safety field offices compounded with an overall decline in inspection staff ...

A photo from the preseason game on Oct. 22, 2022, shows McGuire with his face and clothes covered in dust and soot as he ...

and it will endanger and destroy the lives of coal miners," said Willie Dodson, coal impacts program manager for Appalachian Voices. "MSHA needs more inspectors, MSHA needs more resources," he said.

Aunt Molly Jackson is remembered as a poet, nurse/midwife (having delivered some 880 babies), and coal miner activist who worked and wrote for humane treatment of exploited laborers throughout the ...