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

Instead of closing coal plants, we can’t possibly afford to lose this essential capacity already connected to the grid.

The country's top mine safety expert was part of a panel that appeared Tuesday afternoon in a Senate hearing about the recent explosion that killed 29 West Virginia coal miners in the worst U.S ...

and exposed safety hazards inside West Virginia coal mines. Before joining WSMV4, Stacey was the Chief Investigative Reporter for KSLA News 12 in Shreveport, LA. Earlier in his career, he also ...

A coal mine where an underground fire on Jan. 13, 2025 prompted reported mine worker evacuations had a long history of safety ...

This week on Inside Appalachia, we speak with the author of a new graphic novel about the West Virginia Mine Wars. Also, ...

In Emery County, fourth-generation coal miner Jared Simms says, “This whole area was raised on coal mining." But at 49, he ...

The following events happened on these dates in West Virginia history. To read more, go to e-WV: The West Virginia ...

President Donald Trump's return to office could bring some temporary relief to the beleaguered U.S. coal industry.

Britain’s approval of its first new deep coal mine in decades was overturned in 2024 by London’s High Court. (Image courtesy of West Cumbria Mining.) ...

Several years ago, Jade Powell uttered the word “transition” to a county commissioner at a local government meeting in the ...

The drive is in connection with the flooding of a 90-metre-deep rat-hole coal mine on January 6, trapping nine miners. The bodies of four miners were retrieved by January 10 but five others remain ...