Lisa Emery, a respiratory therapist, is deeply concerned about West Virginia coal miners suffering from black lung disease.

The Endeavor incident that killed two workers last week is far from an isolated tragedy. It is part of a growing pattern, in ...

Joe Pizarchik, who led the federal Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement from 2009 to 2017, says Alabama’s ...

An explosion in a coal mine in eastern Iran killed at least 34 workers and injured 17 others, officials said Sunday, marking one of the worst mining disasters in the country's history as others ...

Seven miners were killed in a blast at a coal mine in the southwestern Pakistani province of Balochistan on Monday night, the second such deadly incident in the region in a week.

Rescuers searching for miners trapped by a coal mine explosion in northeast China found six more bodies early Wednesday, bringing the death toll in the country's worst mining disaster in decades to ...

Benny Willingham worked as a miner for 30 years before he was killed. April 6, 2010 — -- Many of the men who died in the depths of a West Virginia coal mine Monday often discussed with family ...

More details have emerged after two people were killed and another injured in a mine explosion believed to be caused by a ...

One worker from the Endeavor mine said he didn’t know when or if it would reopen. He said conditions there were not safe, ...

Methane is a potent greenhouse gas. It is released from natural sources (like wetlands) and human activities (coal mining, ...