World coal use is set to reach an all-time high in 2024, the International Energy Agency says, in a year all but certain to ...

A transformer explosion at Eskom’s coal-fired 3.6-GW Matla Power Station in Mpumalanga, South Africa, on Dec. 12 injured nine ...

Coal mines were dangerous for all workers. Collapsing mines, suffocation, gas poisoning, explosions, and heavy machinery accidents were daily dangers. Before electricity, men often worked standing ...

Coal mining is a high-risk, labor-intensive industry that involves the transportation of heavy materials and demands ...

An investigation into the fire revealed that the agencies responsible for ensuring coal mine safety had failed in a number of ...

Undermined: Thirteenth in a series about the impacts of longwall mining in Alabama. OAK GROVE, Ala.—The regulators have known ...

Miners in what was once the nation’s most productive swath of coal country brace for the finish ...

another coal mining town, 18 miles north of her hometown of Pokrovsk. "It is too loud, the explosions, the drones. Too dangerous. We cannot stay." Dobropillya is hardly a safe haven. The city ...

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Nine mine workers died in a coal mine blast in Dowali area of lower Orakzai on Wednesday. According to Rescue 1122, the rescue operation has been completed and all the dead bodies have been recovered.

In September, a coal mine reopened in Utah’s Coal Country. But the mine’s owner, Wolverine Fuels, can’t find enough people to fill the estimated 350 jobs needed to staff it.