The Trump administration plans to roll back a rule West Virginia environmental advocates have used to report concerns about ...

An almost 600-acre mountaintop removal coal mine operated by the Justice family was suspended by the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection for various infractions.

As he cast a critical vote for deeply consequential legislation projected to cost lower-income West Virginians on July 1, ...

The Biden administration is investing $300 million to turn three old Appalachian coal mines into sources of clean energy and help struggling mining communities.

Pleas last summer from the Nestors to the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection and the US Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement to hold Arch responsible were rebuffed.

TWILIGHT, W.Va. — The federal Mine Safety and Health Administration has published its final report on the investigation of a fatal accident on a southern West Virginia surface mine. Stephen ...

State regulators pulled a permit for a surface mine tied to West Virginia Republican Sen. Jim Justice’s family, citing a string of ongoing, unaddressed violations.

There were at least 10 coal mining-related deaths nationwide last year, including four in West Virginia and two each in Kentucky and Pennsylvania, according to the Mine Safety and Health ...

“Steven tragically passed away after an accident at the Progress Surface Mine in Twilight, WV. All West Virginians should keep Steven’s family and loved ones in our prayers.

Kentucky coal miner William Mapes, 73, died from fatal injuries in southern West Virginia. Mapes was the first reported coal mining fatality of 2023.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — State mine safety investigators are looking into a serious accident at a southern West Virginia surface mine which left a worker hospitalized.