Last month, the Trump administration nominated mining industry association executive Wayne Palmer to head MSHA.

Rate of black lung disease among miners may be 10 times higher than reported Lung disease is a well-known deadly consequence of working in the coal industry. But a new NPR study finds miners are ...

AFP via Getty After over a month, the remaining five missing miners’ bodies were recovered from a flooded coal mine in India's north-eastern state of Assam on Wednesday, Feb. 19, BBC ...