CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A coal miner died Monday in a workplace accident in southern West Virginia, the governor's office said.

Taylor Meldin Halstead, 20, of Bob White, was killed in the...

DENVER (AP) — A Colorado coal mining company must temporarily stop building new roads in the Gunnison National Forest’s Sunset Roadless Area, a federal appeals court ruled.

MADISONVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A coal miner working underground in western Kentucky died after being struck by a coal scoop.

It was the second coal mining death in Kentucky in less than a week and...

GILLETTE, Wyo. (AP) — A coal mining company has not secured federal leases for two Wyoming mines it bought and reopened almost a year ago in Campbell County.

CASPER, Wyo. (AP) — Some 1,700 employees of a bankrupt coal mining company would get up to $17.3 million in back pay under a proposed class-action settlement.

DENVER (AP) — Environmental groups have sued the Trump administration over plans to expand drilling, fracking and mining across public lands in southwestern Colorado.

LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — A coal operator headquartered in Kentucky, which bought assets from Blackjewel LLC after the company went bankrupt last year, has now filed for bankruptcy...

GILLETTE, Wyo. (AP) — A mining equipment company based in Wisconsin has requested to either be paid or take its equipment from a Wyoming coal mining company that continues to operate a pair of its...

QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — Seven Pakistani miners were killed and three injured in a explosion Friday inside a coalmine in southwest Pakistan, a local mining official said.

GILLETTE, Wyo. (AP) — A coal mining company in northeast Wyoming has laid off 60 workers in response to lower production and a deteriorating market for Powder River Basin coal.

GILLETTE, Wyo. (AP) — A coal mining company in northeast Wyoming has informed its workers of potential layoffs in response to lower production at the mine and a weak domestic market for Powder...

CASPER, Wyo. (AP) — Wyoming officials have determined that an application for a permit for the state's first major new coal mine in decades is technically complete.

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Federal regulators said Wednesday they are contesting two coal companies' proposed Wyoming operations merger, saying the proposal would stifle competition that has helped...

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Miners in southern Poland worried that massive coal imports will eliminate their jobs on Tuesday blocked railway tracks on the import route.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Two dozen people died in mining accidents in the U.S. last year, the lowest nationwide total ever recorded, according to the Department of Labor.

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Wyoming and Montana asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday to rule on Washington State's denial of a permit for a port facility that could boost U.S. coal exports.

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A major insurer is limiting its coverage of companies in the fossil fuel business, citing concerns about climate change.

CAMERON, W.Va. (AP) — A West Virginia coal miner died while working at a Murray Energy mine, Gov. Jim Justice's office said Tuesday.

Raymond Leonard Starkey Jr., 21, of New Martinsville, was...

GILLETTE, Wyo. (AP) — U.S. regulators plan to finish reviewing a proposed coal mining joint venture in the first half of 2020.

Peabody Energy Corp. and Arch Coal Inc. seek to merge...

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BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — U.S. government scientists found high levels of pollution that can be toxic to fish, aquatic insects and the birds that feed on them in a river that flows into Montana and...

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — U.S. officials say they've detected high pollution levels in fish from a river that flows into Montana and Idaho from a coal mining region of Canada.

MADISONVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A coal miner has died from injuries suffered in an accident at a western Kentucky mine.

A statement from the Kentucky Energy and Environment Cabinet says 39-year-old...

PROSPERITY, Pa. (AP) — Authorities say a coal mine worker was killed when a long wall of coal collapsed on top of him at a mine in western Pennsylvania.

BRISBANE, Australia (AP) — Police arrested dozens of climate protesters who disrupted traffic Tuesday in the biggest city in Australia's main coal mining state.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio Senate decision to cut funding Republican Gov. Mike DeWine budgeted for reclaiming abandoned coal mining sites is expected to arise during budget compromise talks...

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Environmental organizations are suing the Trump administration over the approval a coal-mining project near a national park in southern Utah.

CASPER, Wyo. (AP) — Wyoming coal mining lost 153 jobs last year with just over 5,530 workers employed at the close of 2018 at the state's 16 mines.

LEWISBURG, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia officials say a 38-year-old coal miner has died in an accident.

The West Virginia Office of Miners' Health, Safety and Training said preliminary...

PLYMOUTH, Pa. (AP) — Margaret Bau was shivering as she remembered stories about her great-grandmother Gwendolyn Lake, the mother of one of 10 girls and young women who died horrible deaths in the borough 130 years ago this month.

Gwendolyn's daughter Mary was 16 when she perished while working at the Powell Squib Factory on Feb. 25, 1889.

A series of explosions leveled the factory, where mostly young women and teenage girls worked to produce squibs — small explosive detonators used in coal mining.