In a statement, the Department of the Interior said it granted approval for Hurricane Creek Mining LLC to mine coal on Bryson ...

Coal mining is a tough job — miners work long hours in harsh conditions, but it pays well and some people love it. Here's what it's like down below.

Disused coal mines could be refashioned to place vast fields of solar panels, a new report suggests, providing an unlikely solution to a common obstacle to uptake of the green energy source. Coal ...

Since the return of the Taliban, Afghanistan's coal exports have increased — and so has child labor. At a coal mine in Baghlan province, boys earn between $3 and $8 for a day's work.

There are over a thousand fewer coal mine jobs in Letcher County than there were a decade ago, and virtually all of those lost jobs were held by men. The number of mining jobs, according to state ...

The coal produced at Utah's Emery Deep mine is so full of ash some of it can't be sold, pushing hedge-fund owners to seek fresh deposits to mine.

Business In coal country, a new chance to clean up a toxic legacy Waste from abandoned and bankrupt mines has contaminated more than 12,000 miles of waterways. Now states are looking at how to ...

According to the Department of Agriculture, there are 192 underground coal mines in Polk County and approximately 2,700 throughout the entire state. One of the mines is in David Stamper's backyard.

The region had been home to coal mining for centuries before the last mine closed in 1986. Perry says the area has never recovered from the loss, nor outgrown its industrial heritage.

An NRG spokesperson said the coal plant began running on cleaner-burning coal from Wyoming in 2016. That’s when the company halted mining locally after more than three decades.

The strike at the Warrior Met Coal mine was one of the longest in U.S. history, but the price of coal soared during the walkout, giving the company leverage.