A coal company owned by the family of West Virginia Governor Jim Justice continues to rack up fines and legal troubles over pollution from its now-closed coking plant in Birmingham.

The West Virginia Coal Association is praising the passage of the massive budget bill passed by Congress on Thursday, however ...

MOUNDSVILLE, W.V. (WTRF) — Grave Creek Mound Archaeological Complex held a lecture on preserving West Virginia’s coal mining history. The Abandoned Mine Lands department oversees public safety ...

Cleanup of West Virginia's abandoned mines has also been supported by $140 million annually from the 2021 Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, which is planned to continue until 2037.

RICHMOND, Va. (CN) —The Fourth Circuit on Thursday heard from a West Virginia county seeking accountability from coal mining companies responsible for waste dumps, which it claims harm the Johnson ...

“Coal was king in West Virginia for a lot of years,” he says. The board eventually forced Peabody to clean up the creek, noting that it was Nuzum’s group , not the DEP, that won the case.

— A three-mile stretch of the King Coal Highway in southern West Virginia is officially ... four-lane highway for about 1.5 miles from Mountain View to the town of Gilbert along Gilbert Creek.

West Virginia’s fund to clean up abandoned coal mines is in such dire shape that it threatens to stick taxpayers with hundreds of millions — perhaps even billions — of dollars in cleanup costs.