Cliff Drouet is a forester in the Office of Surface Mining in Lexington. In an interview with WEKU's Eastern Standard, he ...

A five-day event brought people from all across the region to celebrate and further understand the history and impacts of West Virginia coal mining.

The country’s largest public power provider is building a large-scale solar field on a closed coal ash site at its Shawnee ...

Electricity utility Duke Energy announces plans study the sale of its existing coal-powered units at Cayuga Generating Station in western Indiana. The utility hopes to replace the coal units with new ...

Kentucky, still vastly reliant on fossil fuel-fired power plants, has much at stake in the EPA's power plant rulemaking.

MARTIN COUNTY, Ky. (WOWK) — The bodies of Billy Ray Daniels and Alvin Nees, the two men who died in a coal preparation plant collapse that happened Tuesday evening, were recovered Friday night ...

Nov. 4 (UPI) --A second worker has been confirmed dead after a building collapsed this week at a coal preparation plant in Kentucky's Martin County. Two workers, identified as Billy Ray Daniels ...

A second man has died days after a shuttered Kentucky coal plant building collapsed, trapping the two workers. The abandoned building in rural Martin County, Kentucky, was being prepared for ...

MARTIN COUNTY, Ky. — The second worker trapped inside a collapsed coal preparation plant in eastern Kentucky has died, according to Gov. Andy Beshear. "I am sad to report that the second worker ...

The second person trapped inside a collapsed coal plant in eastern Kentucky this week has been found dead, according to state officials.The building at Martin Mine Prep Plant in Martin County ...

Thursday, Kentucky Emergency Management Director ... Lafferty talked at the entrance to the Excel/Pontiki Coal Preparation Plant in Martin County. It was closed down after 1 person died and ...