As West Virginia celebrates its history and birthday, the town of Madison is celebrating the Mountain State’s strong ...

Disused coal mines could be refashioned to place vast fields of solar panels, a new report suggests, providing an unlikely ...

The National Coal Mining Museum turned the clock back to the 1940s on Saturday to celebrate one of the most transformative ...

Timothy Novotney was a teenager in Hazleton when his friend moved into a house with a steel door in the basement.

Some of the reasons why the world has not been able to quit coal are obvious, and some are less so. Coal is cheap and ...

Once nearly eradicated, the “old man’s disease” is back and suffocating younger miners. Federal cuts risk putting a solution ...

As American energy companies decrease their coal production, many wonder what comes next for the communities left behind.

Like most of the mining village lads who left school in the very early 80s, I assumed that I’d get a job at the pit.

The first step towards this goal was to rid the sector from outdated policies, iron curtains blocking us from leveraging the ...

Over 300 surface coal mines have been idled in the past five years. Abandoned coal mines or those closing down by the end of ...

China leads the world in converting decommissioned coal-mining sites into solar power projects ... particularly over the past couple of years, the non-governmental organisation said in a report ...

Since 1970, more than 75,000 miners have died of black lung disease. Now, researchers working to prevent those deaths get ...