Federal regulators have threatened to take over enforcement authority from West Virginia for another coal mine permit in ...

The West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection has suspended a mining permit for one of Gov. Jim Justice's coal mines following federal regulators’ threat they would take over enforcement on ...

GHENT, WV (WVNS) — West Virginia’s coal mining industry has faced some monumental mining disasters, with some of the worst occurring during the 1900’s. According to West Virginia Archives ...

State regulators pulled a permit for a surface mine tied to West Virginia Republican Sen. Jim Justice's family, citing a ...

Officials are saying a coal miner, Virgil Paynter, of Lynco, West Virginia died on Thursday in Wyoming County at the CM Energy Operations LP Surface Mine. This is the first coal mine fatality in ...

An almost 600-acre mountaintop removal coal mine operated by the Justice family was suspended by the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection for various infractions.

A mining company in West Virginia is facing a lawsuit from conservation groups that claim it has violated federal ...

“There’s almost zero reason to be completely optimistic,” says Ted Boettner, executive director of the West Virginia Center on Budget & Policy. “It’s a disservice to coal-mining ...

PHILIPPI, W.Va. — Investigators with the state Office of Miner’s Health, Safety, and Training along with federal regulators ...

Core Natural Resources is working to temporarily seal a part of its Leer South coal mine in West Virginia in an effort to extinguish an underground fire. The fire began Monday and all mine workers ...

An underground fire at the Leer South Mine in Philippi caused the entire mine to be evacuated, according to Andy Malinowski, ...

No one was injured when a coal mine in Barbour County suffered a “combustion-related event” this week. According to a press ...