The developer of what would be the first new coal mine in Wyoming in decades is launching a potentially half-billion-dollar ...

Competition from natural gas and high-producing western mines is too strong for Appalachia Federal regulations%2C increased production spur job cuts across the region Report indicates a 31%25 drop ...

Scottie Stinson, a coal miner of 16 years, crawls through a coal mine roughly 40-inches-high while securing the roof with bolts, Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2015, in Welch, W.Va. Coal will not go completely ...

The average mine-mouth price—the price of coal before factoring in transportation costs—for Appalachian coal began climbing in 2004, and the Energy Information Administration predicts it will ...

West Virginia state labor officials project a 23% decline in non-oil-and-gas mining jobs from 2015 to 2017. In Kentucky, the number of coal mining jobs plummeted 28% in 2015 to 8,401, according to ...

Coal mining jobs in the United States increased by 771 from 2016 to 2017, a rise of 1.4 percent, but most coal states actually saw coal mining jobs decline, according to a post by Jeremy ...

Coal companies are declaring bankruptcy. State regulators are failing to hold them accountable. And residents are left to suffer the environmental fallout from abandoned mines.

The number of producing mines nationwide declined that year to 710 mines, about 120 fewer mines than in 2015. Appalachian coal production in 2016 was also historically low, at almost a 19% decline ...

“King Coal” finds its purpose in this process, as a loose collection of segments covering different aspects of coal mining and culture in Appalachia crystallizes into a statement of hope for ...