Most of West Virginia’s coal production comes from underground mines, also called deep mines. The rest comes from surface mining. It is uncertain how long the existing U.S. coal reserves will ...

West Virginia coal provided high-wage jobs ... reaching greater gas reserves. Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, pumps huge amounts of water, sand and chemicals underground to free gas from ...

Massey Energy, a publicly traded company based in Richmond, Va., has 2.2 billion tons of coal reserves in southern West Virginia, eastern Kentucky, southwest Virginia and Tennessee. It ranks among ...

Its reserves were dry ... its business purpose as “surface & underground coal mining,” according to documents filed with the West Virginia secretary of state. Grant Town says its plan to ...

I wrote a slightly snotty post about West Virginia recently ... economies becomes even more important when we realize that coal reserves throughout most of Appalachia are projected to peak ...

The West Virginia Legislature is working on critical ... the U.S. Department of the Interior to determine the nation’s coal reserves and open up lease agreements to tap those veins of coal ...

First Reserve Corp., a leveraged buyout pioneer ... ever recorded in wildlife came from samples taken near coal mines in West Virginia. Selenium is just one of the threats to Appalachia, home ...

But as I read his statement, I realize Conyers is simply stating a very obvious fact: Coal mining counties are some of the poorest counties in America, and West Virginia needs to diversify our ...

What makes the coal clean? And most important, Trump claims “things are changing” in states such as West Virginia ... report on the commodity from the Reserve Bank of Australia.

In addition to coal, the Appalachian Mountains conceal an enormous reserve of natural gas embedded in the Marcellus Shale. West Virginia sits at the heart of these reserves, and the natural gas ...