November 19 marked 15 years since an explosion ripped through the underground Pike River Coal mine on the remote West Coast ...

At the start of their shift, the coal miners working on Enlow Fork Mine’s H-3 longwall section step into a black steel elevator and descend 800 feet underground, where they walk out through a heavy ...

Note to readers • This story was originally published by High Country News. In September, a coal mine reopened in Utah’s Coal Country. But the mine’s owner, Wolverine Fuels, couldn’t find enough ...

High school teacher Ashley Allen’s discovery of 300-million-year-old fossils in an Alabama coal mine turned him into a modern ...

The Department of Energy posted an unusual meme — for a federal department — on the social media platform X last Thursday: A photo of a gleaming rock, center-framed, with the caption, “She’s an icon / ...

The federal government is moving forward with leasing thousands of acres of land in west Alabama for coal mining, a move that will drastically increase coal exports from the state. The move could ...

After decades of mining coal deep below the mountains of West Virginia, David Bounds now struggles to carry a gallon of milk to the breakfast table without gasping for breath. The black lung disease ...

Environmental groups had opposed expanding a Montana mine previously caught up in allegations of cocaine trafficking and the faked kidnapping of an executive. By Hiroko Tabuchi The Trump ...

A major coal mine in Wyoming has received approval to open up a huge new section of federal land for mining. This newly accessible area contains around 14.5 million tons of coal. That is a little more ...