Former NIOSH employees are continuing to speak out against federal cuts that will negatively impact coal miner safety in West ...

By Russell Coleman and JB McCuskey Special to NKyTribune America needs coal. For generations, our nation has tapped into coal ...

The Trump administration’s feckless business-first, workers-last approach is leaving the nation’s coal miners to die—and now ...

Safety advocates are bemoaning the delay of new safety standards to protect coal miners from deadly dust exposure.

“In Central Appalachia, it’s a big deal. These are towns that basically were built around coal mining, and coal miners are like the heart and soul of this community and economic livelihood for ...

New federal rule to limit coal miners’ exposure to silica dust — a leading cause of black lung disease — is being delayed ...

The CDC unit that dramatically reduced Black Lung Disease among coal miners has been fired in Trump's sweeping overhaul of ...

In 1921, on the rugged slopes of Blair Mountain in West Virginia, an army of 10,000 coal miners took up arms against the coal barons who had kept them in ...

But the company-controlled monetary systems continued in Appalachian coal camps for decades ... until the people here fought for the right to own their own homes. These days, coal mines here in West ...

"In Central Appalachia, it's a big deal," he says. "These are towns that basically were built around coal mining, and coal miners are like the heart and soul of this community and economic ...