A coal train passes through Thurmond, West Virginia, on Sunday, July 2, 2006. (AP Photo/Jon C. Hancock) Over the past two decades, coal use in the United States has fallen. Utilities have switched ...

Ava Johnson knows West Virginia coal will not ever be what it once was. But as she makes her way along overgrown railroad tracks near the abandoned Kay Moor mine in the New River Gorge National ...

Trump's Push to Save the Fading Coal Industry Gets a Warm Embrace in West Virginia FAYETTEVILLE, W.Va. (AP) — The winner of this year's West Virginia Coal Festival teen beauty pageant walks ...

Having grown up in West Virginia, the merger between U.S. Steel and Nippon Steel (which has just been approved by President ...

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 coal tipples and processing ...

Ava Johnson knows West Virginia coal will not ever be what it once was. But as she makes her way along overgrown railroad tracks near the abandoned Kay Moor mine in the New River Gorge National ...

Ava Johnson knows West Virginia coal will not ever be what it once was. But as she makes her way along overgrown railroad tracks near the abandoned Kay Moor mine in the New River Gorge National ...