The federal agency charged with ensuring the safety of America’s mining workforce is removing requirements for several of its standards in underground coal mines.

Recently, China has made significant progress in coal mine safety, with the death rate per million tons of coal decreasing from 4.94 in 2021 to 0.094 in 2022. This achievement can be attributed to an ...

The U.S. Department of Labor’s Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) released three proposed rules on July 1 aimed at revising the criteria for approving safety plans in underground coal mines.

Authorities in northern China were investigating a coal mine operator with a focus on safety lapses, as rescuers searched for those missing in the country’s deadliest coal mine explosion in recent ...

The majority of India’s coal is mined using opencast methods, which causes more waste dumps to be formed and stability problems. There is a higher chance of dump instability because to the 1148 ...

When the Trump administration took the first steps toward shutting down two major programs aimed at protecting the nation’s miners, the grassroots response was immediate, and vehement. And, it turns ...

President Trump has been a cheerleader for coal miners. But these miners say his administration is failing to enforce limits on a lethal workplace hazard. Gary Hairston, 71, is a retired coal miner ...

Methane is a potent greenhouse gas. It is released from natural sources (like wetlands) and human activities (coal mining, and oil and gas production). It is also emitted by agriculture (especially ...

QINYUAN, China (AP) — Authorities in northern China were investigating a coal mine operator with a focus on safety lapses, as rescuers searched for those missing in the country’s deadliest coal mine ...