Along with sedimentation, coal hauling could degrade the Upper Gauley watershed with coal dust from loaded coal trucks. “The West Virginia Highlands Conservancy has a 55-year history of working in ...

As clean energy rises, West Virginia looks past Trump’s embrace of coal to what comes next By Justin Worland/Charleston, W.Va. Photographs by Peter van Agtmael—Magnum Photos for TIME It was a ...

West Virginia coal operators built small, company-owned towns for their miners to live in. The coal towns were almost always unincorporated; there were no elected officials, no independent police ...

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. A coal mine in West Virginia ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WCHS) — West Virginia exports more coal to China than any other state and some producers have expressed serious concerns over a potential trade war. Countermeasures to ...

For the first time this season, the West Virginia Mountaineers will bust out the all-black "Coal Rush" uniforms Saturday evening against the Utah Utes. Last year, the Mountaineers didn't have much ...