President Donald Trump’s administration has proposed several changes that would affect the struggling U.S. coal industry.

Hurricane Creek Mining gets permit for up to 1.8 million tons of coal in Claiborne County over the next decade, enhancing energy independence and job creation.

As Trump proposes cutting Appalachian Regional Commission, Central Appalachia's coalfields and rural counties remain mired in ...

Kentucky legislature removes workplace safety standards, passing measures that improve profits at the expense of workers’ ...

A second plaintiff has joined a federal lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s cuts to a program that screens coal miners for black lung.

Rare earth elements are a family of 17 metallic elements with unusual properties that make them useful for specific ...

Rousseau was a repeat entrant in the prestigious Dijon Prize contests and actually won the coveted award a second time in 1754 for his “Discourse on the Origin and Basis of Inequality Among Men.” In ...

About a fifth of the coal miners in Central Appalachia have black lung. And from 1970 to 2016, more than 75,000 died. Nationally, a 2023 NIOSH study found that coal miners are twice as likely to die ...