By 2050, entire counties across Appalachia face the loss of nearly half their populations in what demographers describe as an accelerating demographic ...

It was a morning unlike anything St. Louis had ever seen. Automobile traffic crawled as drivers struggled to peer through ...

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.

The situation had to get pretty bad before people really forced the government to act. But the effort was ultimately ...

A fire that won't stop. The landscape of a horror film. A legendary demon. Spooky isn't just a seasonal fad at these U.S.

The completion of the Union Pacific’s transcontinental railroad in 1869 created a voracious demand for coal, and the immense ...

After 100 days, Trump's vow to boost coal belies cuts to miner health programs. For John Robinson, a retired coal miner who spent his career in the Virginia mines helping to power America into the ...

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — U.S. officials in the coming days are set to hold the government's biggest coal sales in more than a decade, offering 600 million tons from publicly owned reserves next to strip ...

President Donald Trump came into office promising to reverse the long decline of coal. Now he’s taking action with a plan to pour money into coal-burning plants and open federal lands to mining. But ...

The Trump administration has announced plans to open 13 million acres of federal land for coal mining, as part of President Donald Trump's aim to bolster the shrinking U.S. coal industry. The policy, ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration said Monday it will open 13 million acres of federal lands for coal mining and provide $625 million to recommission or modernize coal-fired power plants as ...

Large crane dumps load of dirt in dump truck at a surface coal mine in northeastern Wyoming. Federal land reserves of coal are being leased for mining in Alabama, Montana, Utah, Wyoming and North ...