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 and DOGE laid off 25 federal workers who were responsible for the one program America's coal miners ...

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

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

All can be caused by chronic exposure to respirable coal mine dust, which, in the mines of Central Appalachia, is increasingly cut with particles of crystalline silica. As centuries of mining have ...

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

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 ...