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 ...

Steep paths zigzag through the pine and silver birch trees that smother the slopes of a vast slag heap looming over Murcki, a ...

The earliest documented form of coal mining in Swannington dates back to around 1204. The remarkable aspect of Swannington’s ...

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.

Coal ministry allocates 200 coal blocks, emphasizing sectoral reforms, private participation, and national self-reliance in ...

The first step towards this goal was to rid the sector from outdated policies, iron curtains blocking us from leveraging the ...