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 ...

WEST FRANKFORT — Since its inception in 1941, the Old King Coal Festival has honored the region’s coal miners and their contributions to the community. The deep-rooted celebration kicks off Thursday ...

In November, crews hired by Colorado’s natural resources department descended onto a popular south Boulder trailhead, digging up patches of an underground coal seam that had been smoldering since ...

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, ...

WEST FRANKFORT — The Old King Coal Festival has named John Smith of West Frankfort as the 2025 Old King Coal. John will reign over the festival, which runs May 8 through 11 in downtown West Frankfort.

In the basement of the library at Penn State Fayette, The Eberly Campus a few miles north of Uniontown, sits one of the largest collection of artifacts of the region’s bituminous coal and ...

A sinkhole which opened up on a new housing estate following heavy rain in Lancashire this weekend is being investigated by ...

The Montana Department of Environmental Quality on Wednesday transferred a revoked coal mining permit to BMP Investments Inc., which is working to reopen the Bull Mountain coal mine. "We would like to ...

China is the world’s largest coal producer and consumer. In 2024, the country produced more than 470 million metric tons of ...