As black lung disease hits a 50-year high among Central Appalachian coal miners, protections and compensation from the ...

A collaborative effort involving The Nature Conservancy (TNC), its Cumberland Forest Limited Partnership, Sun Tribe Development, and ENGIE is set to revitalize 17 former coal mining sites across ...

A $60 million debt load, hundreds of layoffs, and a fire-sale auction brought down one of Appalachia’s last major coal strongholds. The coal company that once controlled Eastern Kentucky’s largest ...

A new study shows that rates for black lung disease in Appalachia are surging. At the same time, the Trump administration is putting regulations that could reduce miners’ exposure to the dust ...

New research from federal health researchers shows that central Appalachian coal miners are suffering from black lung disease at the highest rate in nearly half a century. Mine regulations passed in ...

US coal producer Alliance Resource Partners further reduced its sales guidance for 2025 primarily because of mining setbacks and elevated production costs at some Appalachian operations. The company, ...

Respiratory therapist Marcy Freeman doesn’t need a research study to confirm for her a return to the dark days of coal mining. She finds evidence in a stack of more than 150 funeral programs, all for ...

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, ...

Last year, I moved to Kentucky—not to escape the chaos of California, but to build something better. I wanted to be somewhere people still believed in work, community, and country. You feel that ...

BOB WHITE, W.Va. -- With a boost from President Bush, central Appalachia's mountaintop coal miners are finally embracing the future again, flagging more of this state's ancient summits for blasting ...