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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

U.S. officials have rejected a mining company’s bid for more than 6 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 ...

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 ...