When Tom Hartz was a young lad in the 1950s, dragline power shovels had pretty much replaced the hardy miners that harvested coal hundreds of feet beneath the earth’s surface. Still, growing up in the ...

KY Sen. Mitch McConnell, I doubt coal miners will 'just get over' proposed Medicaid cuts that could close the hospitals they fought to build.

The statue, affectionately known as “Plantation Man,” is being restored and will be unveiled in time for the town’s annual Fourth of July Parade and Summer Carnival.

The Trump administration has cut programs that protected workers from lung disease, aided those afflicted, and kept miners safe.

In early April, President Donald Trump gathered dozens of hard-hat-clad coal miners around him in the White House East Room. He joked about arm-wrestling them and announced he was signing ...

ROCKY TOP, Tenn. (WATE) — A rich history of a bygone era in Anderson County is on display in the town of Rocky Top, originally known as Coal Creek. A unique museum shows what life was like when ...

This Washington Examiner series zeroes in on the Trump administration's efforts to reinvigorate the coal industry as part of the president's energy strategy.

The decline of coal has wiped out small towns across West Virginia that have based their entire economies around the industry.

“What they say is it doesn't feel like the people making these cuts actually had any idea who we are, what we did, or maybe not even where we worked,” says Jacob Soboroff on the federal ...

Layoffs halt black lung protection programs for miners NIOSH and MSHA programs suspended amid Trump administration cuts Miners face increased risk as safety regulations enforcement weakens OAK ...

The rule would have cut the allowable exposure level of deadly silica dust—20 times more toxic than coal dust and a major cause of black lung disease among coal miners — in half.

A West Virginia Coal Miner Just Saved NIOSH’s Black Lung Program A federal judge ordered the restoration of jobs in the National Institute for Occupational Health and Safety’s Respiratory ...