The Powder River Basin’s two largest producers continue to be the canary in Wyoming’s coal mining industry. The 2025 first ...

An environmental group has been urging people to oppose the proposed expansion of three Wyoming coal mines on grounds that coal is a primary source of greenhouse gas emissions. WildEarth Guardians, ...

Arch Coal had its best financial year on record yet, in October, it decided to idle a dragline and a shovel at its Black Thunder mine. In January, Peabody announced it would trim its Powder River ...

Nearby, mining counties across Virginia’s slice of Appalachia were reeling after decades of job loss. Mr. Stacy and his friend Jim McGlothlin, both former coal magnates, seized on what they ...

Hundreds of years later, Underground Miners, a dedicated nonprofit of volunteers consisting of miners and coal mine enthusiasts, will demonstrate the vintage lighting miners used to dig for ...

NIOSH estimates that 20% of coal miners in Central Appalachia now suffer from some form of black lung disease, the highest rate that has been detected in 25 years, as workers in the ageing mines ...

A federal judge ordered the restoration of jobs in the National Institute for Occupational Health and Safety’s Respiratory ...

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (KJCT) - Immediate mitigation work is underway as a result of an underground coal mine fire. The city of Glenwood Springs announced that the Division of Reclamation ...

Days after the Alberta Energy Regulator (AER) approved a controversial exploratory coal mining project in the Rocky Mountains, concerned residents protested in the Crowsnest Pass to voice their ...

The Trump administration on Tuesday temporarily reinstated dozens of fired federal workers who help screen coal ... with black lung can transfer to a less dusty part of the mine without a pay ...