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 ...

LONDON (Reuters Life!) - English coal mining may be a fading way of life but Pitmatic, the local dialect of the mining communities in northeast England, has been preserved by the publication of its ...

Even as the federal government attempts to prop up the waning coal industry, New England’s last coal-fired power plant has ...

Abandoned coal mines will soon serve a new purpose that will benefit the environment thanks to an initiative from the Biden administration. In May, it was announced that $450 million from the ...

From Europe to North America, an energy revolution is breathing new life into empty, long-forgotten coal mine shafts—by repurposing them into places to store renewable energy. Using "gravity batteries ...

Once nearly eradicated, the “old man’s disease” is back and suffocating younger miners. Federal cuts risk putting a solution further out of reach. Denver Brock, in the foreground, with his son Aundra.

Arch Coal Inc. is shutting or idling four mining complexes in central Appalachia and laying off 750 workers as U.S. coal demand slips to the lowest level in 20 years. Arch, one of the world's five ...

The new effort, which includes opening 13.1 million acres of federal land for mining and eliminating pollution limits, aims ...

Learn about the top 10 coal-producing states in the U.S., including Wyoming, West Virginia, and Pennsylvania, and their ...

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

Note to readers • This story was originally published by High Country News. In September, a coal mine reopened in Utah’s Coal Country. But the mine’s owner, Wolverine Fuels, couldn’t find enough ...