In the heart of West Virginia, United States, lies Thurmond, a tiny town that, according to the 2020 census, has only five ...

With massive coal reserves acting as a natural charcoal filter, West Virginia used to be famous ... by nearby mountaintop coal removal mining. Not only was mining taking away their charcoal ...

In the Mine Wars that erupted in southern West Virginia over the first two decades ... in remote areas that often lacked existing towns. Coal companies established towns and imposed a system ...

Nicholas County is well-known in West Virginia for a few things ... The other thing to know about Nicholas County is that they mine a lot of coal. Or used to, anyway. Thirty-five years ago ...

Tired of entertaining, the wife of a West Virginia industrialist in the late 1800s demanded her husband limit the number of ...

Officials are saying a coal miner, Virgil Paynter, of Lynco, West Virginia died on Thursday in Wyoming County at the CM Energy Operations LP Surface Mine. This is the first coal mine fatality in ...

“There’s almost zero reason to be completely optimistic,” says Ted Boettner, executive director of the West Virginia Center on Budget & Policy. “It’s a disservice to coal-mining ...

West Virginia’s economy has depended heavily on its mineral resources, and declining coal production in recent years has hurt the state economically. Today, mining safety and ecological concerns ...