FOSTER, West Virginia— Robert Cash, a third-generation coal miner, prays each morning with his fellow miners before going underground for a long shift. In the coalfields of Appalachian West ...

The owner of Montana’s largest coal mine is suing BNSF after a year of shipment struggles that Navajo Transitional Energy Company alleged resulted in millions of dollars lost NTEC, owner of ...

After 100 days, Trump's vow to boost coal belies cuts to miner health programs. For John Robinson, a retired coal miner who spent his career in the Virginia mines helping to power America into the ...

The Trump administration on Tuesday temporarily reinstated dozens of fired federal workers who help screen coal miners for black lung, a deadly and incurable disease caused by inhaling toxic coal ...

As President Trump pledges to revive ‘beautiful’ coal, Virginia’s coal counties have largely moved on to new ventures. But ...

The Trump administration’s feckless business-first, workers-last approach is leaving the nation’s coal miners to die—and now their unions are taking him to court. U.S. President Donald Trump ...

A group of Navajo grass-roots activists took their message to the tribal council on Earth Day, asking for accountability on coal and uranium mining projects ... I just said ‘oh well, guess ...

This story is part of a Grist package examining how President Trump's first 100 days in office have reshaped climate and environmental policy in the U.S. Jeffrey Willig doesn’t mine coal anymore.

Pretty soon, they’ll be coming to Ohio, too — unless ... executive orders to revive the coal industry — keeping aging coal plants online, accelerating mining leases on federal lands and ...

BEIJING (AP) — Water rushed into a coal mine in northwestern China’s Gansu province, leaving three workers dead, official state news agency Xinhua reported Tuesday. There were 133 people ...

Maryland’s largest active underground coal mine changed hands last month after the mine’s previous operator, Canadian firm Corsa Coal, filed for bankruptcy and auctioned assets to pay creditors.

COLUMBUS, Ohio — After years of attempts, Ohio lawmakers voted Wednesday to end the subsidy for two unprofitable Cold War-era coal plants that had cost Ohio ratepayers nearly $400,000 a day ...