Trump directed federal agencies to lift Obama-era limits on coal mining, leasing, and exports. He instructed the Interior ...

The aftermath of a home explosion above Oak Grove Mine that killed W.M. Griffice in the Oak Grove area of Alabama. Federal regulators waited over seven months to begin a formal investigation into the ...

When retired coal miner Phillip Johnson bought a small building several years ago, he had someone he knew with a bulldozer haul it to a secluded hollow in the steep mountains above where he’d grown up ...

Mining industry deaths hit a near-decade high last year. Most occurred in surface mines, like strip or open-pit mines, but there are fewer opportunities to train above-ground miners for rescues.

Arkansas has been allocated a third installment of $1.7 million in federal funding to go toward the cleanup of pollution from abandoned coal mines in the state. The funding, announced last week by the ...

CLAIBORNE COUNTY, Tenn. — The U.S. Department of the Interior approved a proposed coal mine on Bryson Mountain in Claiborne County recently. In a statement, DOI said it gave the green light to ...

The Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement (OSMRE) Recognizes NTEC with the United States’ Preeminent Award for Mine Reclamation at Navajo Mine FARMINGTON, N.M.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Navajo ...

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Undermined: Fifteenth in a series about the impacts of longwall mining in Alabama. JASPER, Ala.—Verby Burton said she wasn’t expecting much from Thursday’s meeting of the Alabama Surface Mining ...