As President Trump pledges to revive “beautiful” coal, Virginia’s coal counties have largely moved on to new ventures. But ...

Hopes that Donald Trump's executive orders will revive the coal industry have been tempered by the administration's cuts to mine safety programs.

About two-thirds of the staff that provides free examinations for the deadly disease, which one study says affects 1 in 5 longtime miners, was recently fired.

As workers across the United States continue to fight back against attacks on fundamental rights, fought for and won over ...

The Trump administration's cuts to NIOSH have gutted crucial programs affecting millions of workers across the U.S.

A federal judge ordered the restoration of jobs in the National Institute for Occupational Health and Safety’s Respiratory ...

Friends of the Coal Ladies Auxiliary wrapped its Coal in the Classroom program by taking Catholic school third and ...

Ava Johnson knows West Virginia coal will not ever be what it once was. But as she makes her way along overgrown railroad tracks near the abandoned Kay Moor mine in the New River Gorge National ...

When the federal government tried to fire a team protecting coal miners from Wyoming to West Virginia from black lung disease ...

May marks the anniversary of two of the most defining, but often overlooked, battles in American labor history: the Matewan ...

Plaintiff Harry Wiley, a West Virginia mine electrician who has worked in coal mines for 38 years, was diagnosed with early-stage black lung last November. Canceling the health surveillance ...

In the coalfields of Appalachian West Virginia, everyone hopes the mine will keep giving up its coal to pay rare six-figure salaries. But their prayers ask that they return safely to the surface.