U.S. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum announced during his visit to Oklahoma City that his agency is going to promote mining ...

FARMINGTON, WV (WVNS) — Coal mining is deeply ingrained with West Virginia history, which includes various mine disasters that occurred throughout the state. According to the West Virginia ...

ROCK up and dig deep into the past for a gem of a day this weekend at the National Coal Mining Museum for England - Geology ...

A federal program that screens coal miners for black lung disease has been shuttered because of layoffs and budget cuts.

This week, some politicians and coal companies call themselves friends of coal, but one journalist says they don’t seem to be ...

Tom Bethell, dead at 86, dedicated his extraordinary journalistic and analytic skills to demand justice for coal miners and ...

Coal mining in West Virginia, meanwhile, spent the ensuing years in a political fight ... “It's just a big scare around here," he said. “If we have a disaster and they closed down an MSHA office close ...

BEIJING, Nov 22: The death toll from a coal mine blast in northeast China rose to 87 on Sunday, with 21 miners still trapped underground, in the nation´s deadliest mining disaster in two years, state ...

Coal mining is one of the most dangerous jobs, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Nearly every day, they face the risk of serious injury from cave-ins or other accidents. Besides ...

Coal mining has powered economies for centuries, but it has also come at a devastating cost. Some disasters were so catastrophic that they reshaped safety regulations forever. Thousands of lives ...

A significant fire erupted at an abandoned coal mine in Rajrappa, Jharkhand, threatening thousands of residents with toxic ...