With President Donald Trump back in office, fossil fuels are again at the forefront of the nation’s energy policy. Trump ...

For residents of southern West Virginia, the King Coal Highway is a familiar topic. More than two decades of work have been ...

The West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection has told federal authorities they were out of line in issuing a ...

West Virginia (CNN)-- Efforts were under way Sunday to reventilate a sprawling West Virginia coal mine so crews can recover the bodies of 22 miners who died in an explosion Monday, authorities said.

Libby Lindsay spent 21 years working underground as a miner for Bethlehem Steel in West Virginia. She saw many safety ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order last week to boost mineral production “to the maximum possible extent” as ...

In the Mine Wars that erupted in southern West Virginia over the first two decades of the 20th century, coal miners and coal companies in West Virginia clashed in a series of brutal conflicts over ...

Both men wooed West Virginia voters with the promise of more mining jobs and fewer regulations. For an industry in need of a boost, it might as well have been jet fuel. “For the first time in a ...

The country's top mine safety expert was part of a panel that appeared Tuesday afternoon in a Senate hearing about the recent explosion that killed 29 West Virginia coal miners in the worst U.S ...

A county claims the court should look beyond numerical water quality standards when assessing the harm contaminants like ...

A century ago, Mother Jones faced bullets and long odds in her quest to better the lives of coal laborers working in New River Gorge and other West Virginia mines. Union organizers told Mother Jones ...