Josh Cochran worked deep in the coal mines of West Virginia since he was 22 years old, pulling a six-figure salary that ...

Federal laws and other regulations require that rules written by federal agencies use scientific evidence about how to minimize risk. And under an executive order signed by President Bill Clinton in ...

A Republican senator on Tuesday indicated disagreement with at least some of the firings and closures being made by the Trump ...

Multiple Somerset County towns can never be separated from coal, the reason for their existence. But the people are the ...

A federal program that screens coal miners for black lung disease has been shuttered because of layoffs and budget cuts.

Safety advocates are bemoaning the delay of new safety standards to protect coal miners from deadly dust exposure.

After President Trump signed an executive order to boost the coal industry, the labor union United Mine Workers of America is ...

The chair of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee is calling on the Trump administration to immediate reinstate ...

Hundreds of workers at the NIOSH facility in Morgantown learned a a little less than a month ago that they would lose their ...

The president signed four executive orders to reverse the trend away from coal-fired electricity in the U.S., but there's ...

Workers who say five mining companies stiffed them on overtime pay for duties completed before and after their official shifts reached a $2.6 million settlement resolving their wage claims.

President Donald Trump signed four executive orders on Tuesday to reinvigorate the country’s coal mining industry.