coal miners

The filing instigates a civil lawsuit against Hoops, a major escalation in a protracted case with broad implications for the coal industry.

The Mine Safety and Health Administration is not doing enough to protect coal miners from deadly silica dust, according to a new report from the…

Charles Wayne Stanley ran underground mining machines for some 20 years, cutting coal from beneath the hills where Virginia meets Kentucky along the…

Many in Ohio Valley coal regions are reading the tea leaves on what another four years of a Trump administration might look like.

One year ago, Cumberland, Ky. played host to a two-month long protest of a kind that hadn’t been seen in coal country for decades.

“Coal Country" introduced New York theater-goers to the real lives of families affected by the tragedy at the Upper Big Branch mine.

Coal companies owned by the family of W. Va. Gov. Jim Justice have agreed to pay more than $5 million in overdue health and safety fines.

Since the change, the percentage of Kentucky miners diagnosed with black lung fell from 54 percent before the law change to just 26 percent.

Another group of coal miners in eastern Kentucky is blocking a trainload of coal to protest their lack of pay.

The research is the first to specifically analyze long-term data on exposure to toxic silica dust for workers at surface mines.