state officials have been completing a comprehensive, top to bottom review a review of economic development efforts.

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 ...

There was a time—not long ago—when a coal miner could walk into a diner in Logan, West Virginia, hang up his helmet, and know ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Together, the two mines have 109 million tons of reserves in a coal seam that underlies at least 143 square miles of northern West Virginia. While a boon to the state’s economy, longwall mining ...

On this West Virginia Morning, we look at efforts to revitalize a former Black coal camp, plus hear from award-winning singer and songwriter Carrie Newcomer for our Song of the Week.

Core Natural Resources will idle operations at its Itmann mine in West Virginia in August, citing weaker than expected market conditions and economic forces affecting the industry and mine.