“Coal was king in West Virginia for a lot of years,” he says. The board eventually forced Peabody to clean up the creek, noting that it was Nuzum’s group, not the DEP, that won the cas ...

A three-mile stretch of the King Coal Highway in southern West Virginia is officially open ... View to the town of Gilbert along Gilbert Creek. That project is also funded through Roads to ...

The public will be able to learn more about the Forks of Coal State Natural Area Master Plan at a public hearing.

West Virginia complained in court that it had ... some residents of Lost Creek sued the coal company that mines the land above their town for making the flooding and damage worse.

West Virginia’s fund to clean up abandoned coal mines is in such dire shape that ... Regulators ordered the creek cleaned and the hillsides stabilized. The mess still hadn’t been cleaned ...

Republicans have blamed environmental regulations enacted during the Obama and Biden administrations for the downfall of the country’s coal industry. States such as West Virginia were left ...

The treated water then flows from the pond, down the bank, into the creek. West Virginia is the second-largest coal producer in the United States, and coal-patch communities have often been left ...

FAYETTEVILLE, W.Va. — The winner of this year’s West Virginia Coal Festival teen beauty pageant walks among the ruins of a community abandoned 70 years ago and imagines the rusted remains of ...

Slimy water in a West Virginia creek is blamed on an abandoned mine ... And that's right above a defunct coal mine. At least one test also showed high levels of metal in that water, which is ...