A federal program that screens coal miners for black lung disease has been shuttered because of layoffs and budget cuts.

A program that relocates coal miners diagnosed with black lung to safer jobs at the same pay is grinding to a halt due to ...

Suleiman Khalil was harvesting olives in a Syrian orchard with two friends four months ago, unaware the soil beneath them ...

Indigenous communities have taken steps to prohibit uranium mining and transportation on their lands due to the history of contamination, illness and death.

Although President Donald Trump has signed several measures to support the coal industry, he also has made cuts to federal ...

With spring sports rapidly drawing to a close as the school year winds down, 14 schools and their respective track and field programs were still very much competing, Friday evening in the United Mine ...

Chinese export limits are energizing a push for more domestic mining of these minerals, which are used in electronics and military applications.

Navajo Nation President Buu Nygren says Donald Trump's push to revitalize coal could bring jobs, revenue and energy security.

When union organizers showed up, the companies retaliated. Membership in the United Mine Workers union peaked in 1946, then plummeted as government support waned and the industry waged an all-out ...

The United Mine Workers of America and the United Steelworkers on Monday filed a motion to intervene in a federal court case brought by industry groups who claim the rule is too onerous, in which the ...

Multiple Somerset County towns can never be separated from coal, the reason for their existence. But the people are the ...

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