The West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection has suspended a mining permit for one of Gov. Jim Justice's coal ...

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 ...

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

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

Core Natural Resources is working to temporarily seal a part of its Leer South coal mine in West Virginia in an effort to extinguish an underground fire. The fire began Monday and all mine workers ...

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

PHILIPPI, W.Va. (WBOY) — A coal mine in Barbour County was evacuated early Monday morning after a fire was reported.

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

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 ...