Bluestone Coal Corporation’s Poca surface mine’s mining permit was suspended by the West Virginia Department of Environmental ...

A West Virginia lawmaker has introduced a bill in the U.S. House of Representatives that seeks to streamline the process for coal mining permits. U.S. Rep. Carol Miller, R-W.Va., joined U.S. Rep.

An almost 600-acre mountaintop removal coal mine operated by the Justice family was suspended by the West Virginia Department ...

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

Federal authorities have again threatened to take over mine permit violation enforcement from the West Virginia Department of ...

As of 3:32 p.m., the fire at Leer South Mine in Barbour County that started early Monday morning is still burning.

CONSOL Energy and Arch Resources, which operated several mines in West Virginia, officially merged on Tuesday and then released a statement on the underground fire in Barbour County.

Advocates want federal regulators to shut down what they say is an illegal coal haul road in West Virginia's Monongahela ...

America’s coal policy has been an abysmal failure. Government policy has made it increasingly difficult and costly to produce ...

West Virginia is home to the greatest number of coal miners in the country—14,014 as of 2023—which is roughly one-third of all U.S. coal miners. The aforementioned 42,600 coal mining jobs made ...

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 ...