OpEd: Kentucky residents who care about the welfare of working miners should ask Congressman Hal Rogers what he plans to do to keep regional MSHA offices open, and to keep miners safe.

Safety failures allowed by a Boone County, West Virginia coal mine operator with a long history of safety and environmental ...

On Jan. 29, 55-year-old Steven Fields died after a rock fell from a highway and struck the cab of the drill he was operating ...

A federal appeals court just gave mine operators a reprieve from its strict new silica rule after temporarily blocking it from going into effect.

Operator of a drill was killed when a loose boulder on a high wall fell and crushed the cab of his machine in a surface mine pit in Boone County ...

U.S. Sens. Mark Warner and Tim Kaine of Virginia, along with Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania, criticized the Department ...

The Trump administration has made a number of changes to the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) already, and more are sure to come. So now is as good a time as ever to list some ideas for ...

Senate Bill 883 was discussed in the House Energy and Public Works Committee on Monday.This bill would give the director of West Virginia's Office of Miners Hea ...

The federal government wants the number of offices that oversee U.S. mine safety laws to align more with a shrinking coal industry CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- The U.S. Mine Safety and Health ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — The U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration is among the federal agencies selected for spending cuts by the Department of Government Efficiency. Nearly three dozen MSHA ...

That includes terminating leases for three dozen offices in the Mine Safety and Health Administration, the agency responsible for enforcing mine safety laws. The proposals for MSHA are “idiotic ...

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