Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum visited two Warrior Met mines to emphasize the administration’s commitment to lifting ...

Safety advocates are bemoaning the delay of new safety standards to protect coal miners from deadly dust exposure.

Sam Petsonk grew up around southern West Virginia's mining communities, visiting patients with his father, one of the country ...

The federal government wants the number of offices that oversee U.S. mine safety laws to align more with a shrinking coal ...

A survivor of a W. Va. mine disaster that killed 29 workers 15 years ago is speaking out against a Trump recommendation to ...

The CDC unit that dramatically reduced Black Lung Disease among coal miners has been fired in Trump's sweeping overhaul of health agencies. Mining... Coal miners' health care hit hard in job cuts ...

The disaster led to passage of the Federal Coal Mine and Safety Act, which in turn added the miners' surveillance program under the respiratory health division at NIOSH. Late Monday, Petsonk filed ...