You’ve probably heard all the arguments against the proposed expansion of coal production. Dozens more traffic-stopping trains on the rails across Puget Sound. The potential environmental impact. On ...

Trains carrying loads of coal bring with them higher rates of asthma, heart disease, hospitalization and death for residents living nearest the rail lines, according to a new study from the UC Davis.

BOZEMAN, Mont. - Montana Rail Link officials stood before commissioners to talk about train traffic through town, and how it's increasing. "Our volume is going to grow" said Jim Lewis with the MRL.

DELTA, Colo. – On the Western Slope of Colorado – like many other communities across the country – sits a county where coal mining has employed thousands of people for the past century. However, in ...

For two months this summer, out-of-work miners blocked a train full of coal from shipping out of an eastern Kentucky mine, demanding weeks of unpaid wages after their employer, Blackjewel, suddenly ...

Have you heard about the plans to develop one of the largest coal export facilities on the continent at Cherry Point? This is located about 15 miles northwest of Bellingham. What could this mean for ...

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) -- Coal train traffic was returning to normal Monday after snow and rain damaged a major rail route and caused a pair of derailments near Bill. Fifteen cars of a Burlington ...

As Ukraine's men battle Russian forces on the front, its women are rising to the challenge of working deep underground in the country's coal mines. 1 Natalya, 43, and Krystyna, 22, prepare for their ...