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The seven Mine Safety and Health Administration offices once scheduled to be shuttered include: Madisonville, Barbourville, ...
LEXINGTON, Ky. (WKYT) - After public outcry, the General Services Administration has reversed its decision to close down more ...
If there’s one Congressional district where the Medicaid cuts resonate in the country, this is it,” the potential Democratic ...
BEIJING (AP) — Water rushed into a coal mine in northwestern China’s Gansu province, leaving three workers dead, official state news agency Xinhua reported Tuesday. There were 133 people working in ...
Maryland’s largest active underground coal mine changed hands last month after the mine’s previous operator, Canadian firm Corsa Coal, filed for bankruptcy and auctioned assets to pay creditors.
A meeting was held yesterday at the City Administration of Tuzla between Mayor Zijad Lugavic and the Federal Minister of Energy, Mining and Industry, Vedran Lakic. The main topic of discussion was the ...
In 1924, coal mining in America was at its peak, employing over 860,000 miners. Today, employment numbers are slightly over 40,000. Want more proof that the industry is on the decline? Just take a ...
The exploration programme is set to take place at the existing unreclaimed Grassy Mountain mine site, targeting coal seams in the Mist Mountain Formation, to obtain raw coal samples and improve ...
China has deployed a fleet of autonomous electric mining trucks at the Yimin open-pit coal mine in Inner Mongolia. The operation, led by state-backed energy giant Huaneng Group, includes 100 ...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has reinstated nearly 200 workers who screen coal miners for black lung, an incurable progressive disease caused by long-term exposure to coal dust ...
Cadence Hardy, 16, who is Diné, said she grew up in Black Mesa, Arizona, where intensive coal mining depleted an aquifer and its springs, deeply affecting Hopi and Diné communities. Her great ...
At a hearing for the case in Charleston last week, coal miners testified that, without staffing at the CWHSP, they are unable to exercise rights afforded to them through the federal Mine Act ... a ...