House Bill 196 will reduce from two to one the number of mine emergency technicians on duty at small coal mines.

Currently in Kentucky, two emergency trained workers are required at mines while they’re producing coal, no matter the size. But Republican politicians claim this disadvantages mine operators ...

The legacy of coal is not beautiful nor clean. Coal destroys lives. It's time to move on from an industry that exploits people and our planet.

If lease terminations result in fewer mine safety regulators based in coal mining ... still work in Kentucky's eastern coalfield, and an additional 1,300 people work in the western coalfield ...

A dozen years ago eastern Kentucky enjoyed reasonable prosperity. Now, with heavy competition from oil and the large, highly mechanized coal mines, the operators of the small mines are squeezed ...

The tiny town of Benham, Kentucky, was originally built to serve the coal mining industry. Now it's embracing solar energy. Benham, population 500, will soon get an array of solar panels atop the ...

With a few exceptions, most remaining coal mining in Kentucky consists of small mines, said the committee’s chairman, state Sen. Phillip Wheeler, R-Pikeville. Requiring these mines to have two ...

Rosebud Mining Co., of Kitanning, is interviewing some of the workforce at two mines owned by Corsa Coal, U.S. headquartered ...

(CNN)-- The federal government, in an action that it says is the first of its kind, filed a lawsuit Wednesday to close a Kentucky coal mine until its owner can make it safe for workers. The Mine ...