What drives Trump’s politics is nostalgia for the age of coal, when dirty fuel and no environmental regulations created his ...

Activism / After the government betrayed them by refusing to enforce a crucial workplace health rule, a group of coal miners traveled to DC to put Trump on notice. Kim Kelly Last Tuesday, a small ...

For around 30 years, I’ve helped cover big festivals and conventions across the region. I’ve found myself putting together stories while talking to fair goers seeking fun and vendors offering homemade ...

Oregon has a reputation for its breathtaking natural beauty, ranging from its thick forests to the craggy Pacific coast. It ...

Man was fighting record fines issued to his business after fatal accident. ALLENTOWN — A coal mine operator who was fighting record fines issued to his business after a fatal accident committed ...

Gerald Lucas first picked up a No. 4 coal shovel in 1972. For the next 45 years, he worked underground. We’re more than a hundred feet under Beckley, West Virginia, when the lights go out. One minute, ...

Three days after a Pennsylvania woman searching for her cat disappeared at the chasm of a three-story deep sinkhole, the digging crews were back at it Thursday, hoping for a miracle but expecting to ...

Note to readers • This story was originally published by High Country News. In September, a coal mine reopened in Utah’s Coal Country. But the mine’s owner, Wolverine Fuels, couldn’t find enough ...

Undermined: Twelfth in a series about the impacts of longwall mining in Alabama. OAK GROVE, Ala.—For what may be the first time in its history, the Alabama Surface Mining Commission, charged with ...

The Public Investment Corporation says at least half of the mining ventures must be in South Africa, with an allocation for ...