Last year, coal exports brought the country $5 billion in revenue. Overall, the industry generates $27.6 billion annually, ...

Commerce is President ol Nations, and Coal is his Secretary of State.— With only a superficial area of 81,500 square miles of country ... from the mines by a single company in this city.

The coal mines of the Tennessee Coal ... long-term exposure to poor air caused chronic lung diseases such as black lung. For convict laborers, conditions were even worse. Poor food rations ...

Yeager, BLM Buffalo field manager. The decision will block any new federal mining leases in Wyoming's Powder River Basin, the country's largest coal producing region, by 2041. This region produces ...

Nearly 20 years after Peabody Mining closed its Black Mesa Mine and five years after the Kayenta Mine and Navajo Generating Station closed on the Navajo Nation, residents are working toward ...

The federal government approved a 20-year ban Thursday on new mining-related activity in a portion of South Dakota’s Black ...

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.

In most other corners of the country, mine closures might be celebrated as a march toward ... He had his finger, stained black by coal dust and grime, on the pulse of the rest of the world. Before the ...