This disaster is a black mark on the history of West Virginia’s coal mining, but being the catalyst to creating the United State Bureau of Mines is a reason to honor those lives lost ...

OpEd: To incentivize economic growth in our declining coal towns and prevent extensive pollution, what if our mines were ...

For the people of Gillette, dropping coal… Nation’s largest ... the recent explosion that killed 29 West Virginia coal miners in the worst U.S. mining disaster in four… More than a week ...

Greenbrier Hotel Corp. attorneys want a $36.5 million lawsuit against the firm moved to West Virginia. In July, Hammond, ...

(AP) — A federal judge on Thursday issued a third contempt order against a Kentucky coal company for failing to submit adequate plans to clean up two polluted West Virginia mine sites.

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 ...

“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 ...

delivers remarks at the 2024 West Virginia ... trail praise for coal turns into support for coal companies and CEOs, but not the actual people that are doing the work in the mines.

For more than 100 years, the West Virginia University Benjamin M. Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources Mining ...

Jones decided to rebuild her life in Chicago and return to dressmaking, but again, disaster struck when her shop and ... who has researched the role of minority groups in West Virginia coal mines.

U.S. News // 8 years ago Former West Virginia coal mine executive sentenced to prison over '10 disaster An executive in charge of a West Virginia coal mine that suffered an explosion in 2010 that ...

How abandoned coal mines in Appalachia are joining the global race for rare earth metals Researchers in West Virginia are hoping to develop scaleable methods for extracting rare earth metals from ...