coal

A mine safety rule from the U.S. Department of Labor is requiring mine operators to write safety programs for mobile equipment used in surface and underground mining.

A power plant in Western Kentucky with a history of polluting groundwater is planning to phase out coal after four decades of operation. It’s the seventh…

Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to reconsider a lower court ruling that allows a federal agency to set emission…

An eastern Kentucky nonprofit that has long promoted coal to school kids is now promoting innovation and entrepreneurship instead. Pikeville-based CEDAR…

Charles Wayne Stanley ran underground mining machines for some 20 years, cutting coal from beneath the hills where Virginia meets Kentucky along the…

A proposed $17.3 million settlement of a class action lawsuit would provide additional payment for hundreds of Appalachian coal miners who were suddenly…

In 2016, then-candidate Donald Trump was all-in on the fossil fuel industry. In a 2016 rally in Charleston, West Virginia, the candidate proudly accepted…

The Mine Safety and Health Administration is declining to issue an emergency temporary standard that could protect coal miners whose jobs make them…

Executives with Indiana-based coal company American Resources Corporation will face daily fines of $2,500 if they continue to flout court orders,…

Coal company American Resources Corporation, which owns mines in Kentucky and West Virginia, is facing sanctions after failing to comply with a bankruptcy…