Activism / After the government betrayed them by refusing to enforce a crucial workplace health rule, a group of coal miners traveled to DC to put Trump on notice. Kim Kelly Last Tuesday, a small ...

Coal miners, their family members, and union representatives rallied outside of the US Department of Labor’s headquarters in ...

Miners on Tuesday are gathering outside the Labor Department building to protest the Trump administration’s response to black ...

In a rally outside the U.S. Department of Labor, miners and their advocates stressed the need to limit silica exposure and ...

Miners, their supporters and medical experts rallied in Washington, calling on the Trump administration to enforce black lung ...

After mining industry trade groups sued to overturn the rule, federal judges twice paused its enforcement before the ...

Lawyer Stephen Cawood built one of the greatest bodies of work of any Kentuckian to protect Appalachians from the adverse ...

Federal officials have rejected a mining company’s bid for 1.3 million tons of coal beneath a national forest in Utah ...

The black lung trust fund, which kicks in to pay black lung benefits when a coal company can’t, is funded by an excise tax only on coal sold within the United States. The majority of met coal is ...

The US coal industry is having a good year. Demand for the dirtiest fossil fuel is increasing, utilities are running their plants harder, and miners are boosting production.

Like AMR, HCC is a decade-old company that was created to take over some of the assets left behind by a bankrupt coal miner. In the case of AMR, this miner was Alpha Natural Resources. For HCC, Walter ...