The Trump administration plans to roll back a rule West Virginia environmental advocates have used to report concerns about ...

WYOMING COUNTY, W.Va. (WVNS) — Bluestone Coal Corporation’s Poca surface mine’s mining permit was suspended by the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection. According to a press ...

The West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection pulled a mining permit for Bluestone Coal’s Poca surface mine in McDowell County, West Virginia. The mine is owned by Justice’s family ...

Old surface mine sites are set to become new sources of clean energy and job generators ... a 402-megawatt project on some 2,700 acres of repurposed mine lands. As with the West Virginia ...

Conflicts between mining companies and landowners were more intense before Congress amended the 1977 Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act in 1992 to offer some protections, such as requiring ...

As he cast a critical vote for deeply consequential legislation projected to cost lower-income West Virginians on July 1, ...

A coal miner has died in an incident in a southern West Virginia mine, Gov. Jim Justice said. William Mapes, 73, of Freeburn, Kentucky, died Sunday, Justice said Sunday in a news release. Mapes ...

THACKER, W.Va. (AP) — A coal miner has died in an incident in a southern West Virginia mine, Gov. Jim Justice said. William Mapes, 73, of Freeburn, Kentucky, died Sunday, Justice said Sunday in ...

Lynch. A coal company once headed by the governor of West Virginia has failed to fully reclaim a surface mine visible from the highest peak in Kentucky, leaving a large scar in view of a planned ...

FREEBURN, Ky. — A coal miner has died in an incident in a southern West Virginia mine, Gov. Jim Justice said. William Mapes, 73, of Freeburn, Kentucky, died Sunday, Justice said Sunday in a news ...

Disaster at the Monongah coal mine in West Virginia in 1907 when an explosion killed more than 360 workers. Meaningful safety regulations were still decades away.