Rare earth elements are an easy-to-find, hard-to-refine resource critical for everything from magnets and electronics to ...

Twelve West Virginians miners lost their lives 20 years ago today in one of the worst coal mining disasters in the state’s ...

Seth Feaster, a coal analyst at the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis, said that while the Trump ...

Kentucky poised to be a leader in AI data-center development with firm reinvestments in its struggling coal economy, the ...

After decades of mining coal deep below the mountains of West Virginia, David Bounds now struggles to carry a gallon of milk to the breakfast table without gasping for breath. The black lung disease ...

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — U.S. officials rejected a mining company’s bid for more than 6 million tons of coal beneath a national forest in Utah, marking the third proposed coal sale from public lands in ...

Environmental groups had opposed expanding a Montana mine previously caught up in allegations of cocaine trafficking and the faked kidnapping of an executive. By Hiroko Tabuchi The Trump ...

As the Trump administration pushes to expand coal mining, advocates warn that loosening regulations could put miners' health at risk. Justin Hicks of the Appalachia Mid South Newsroom reports.

President Trump signed Tuesday an executive order boosting the production of coal amid a surging demand for electricity. In the U.S., coal is the third most used energy source, falling behind natural ...

The coal mine stretched far deeper than expected, with flooded passages and tight crawls leading into untouched sections. Old ...

When Emmanuel Siyabonga was a boy, he wasn't fussy about the type of job he wanted when he grew up. Other boys dreamed of being footballers, doctors, soldiers. All Siyabonga wanted, he says, was a job ...

Authorities are probing an underground incident that killed one person and injured another, adding to the highly indebted ...