When miners protested Trump’s move to shutter safety offices and a health program for black lung disease, his administration ...

Since 1970, more than 75,000 miners have died of black lung disease. Now, researchers working to prevent those deaths get ...

Federal regulators have determined that the operator of a Raleigh County mine with a long history of safety failures caused a ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The Trump administration is dropping plans to terminate leases for 34 offices in the Mine Safety and Health Administration, the agency responsible for enforcing mine safety ...

About 20 people gathered in San Juan County on Saturday to protest the planned reopening of the Velvet-Wood uranium mine.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The Trump administration is dropping plans to terminate leases for 34 offices in the Mine Safety and Health Administration, the agency responsible for enforcing mine safety ...

Resolution Copper, a major copper mine project in Arizona, is finally back on track thanks to the Trump administration moving ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — The Trump administration is dropping plans to terminate leases for 34 offices in the Mine Safety and Health Administration, the agency responsible for enforcing mine ...

Deep cuts Miners have long faced grave health threats. Between 1900 and 1960, cave-ins, explosions, other disasters and mining accidents killed nearly 100,000 coal miners on the job.