As a labor lawyer and community advocate in Southern West Virginia, I was inspired recently by visiting the coalfields in the ...

A West Virginia and Virginia lawmaker will help co-chair the relaunched Congressional Coal Caucus for the 119th Congress. U.S. Rep. Carol Miller, R-W.Va, announced Thursday that she would co-chair the ...

the coal-producing lands lying south of the Kanawha River and New River were referred to as the Southern West Virginia Coal Fields, since at least the early 1900s. See, for example, this early ...

Advocates want federal regulators to shut down what they say is an illegal coal haul road in West Virginia's Monongahela ...

5 Block coal is mined, mostly in eastern Kanawha and Clay counties. Development of the Kanawha Coal Field The Kanawha Coal Field is one of the oldest fields in West Virginia. The first commercial ...

Ahead of a new administration, we revisit the outlook for the largest coal burners and consider how growth in electricity ...

Simply put, surface coal mines in Wyoming have much bigger holes to fill than the average municipal landfill. A typical coal mine in the southern Powder River Basin, for example, digs hundreds of feet ...

The death toll in a coal mine collapse due to a methane gas accumulation and explosion has left 11 workers dead after rescuers recovered seven more dead bodies, an official said. Twelve workers ...

The West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection has suspended a mining permit for one of its outgoing boss’ coal mines after federal regulators’ threat that they would take over ...

West Virginia is home to the greatest number of coal miners in the country—14,014 as of 2023—which is roughly one-third of all U.S. coal miners. The aforementioned 42,600 coal mining jobs made ...

(WCYB) — A coal mining company with operations in Southwest Virginia has closed down, which could mean dozens of people are now out of work. Coking Coal LLC, which provides coal for use in iron ...