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

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 ...

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 ...

This year has been even more difficult: In May, the Bureau of Land Management ended federal leasing for coal mining in the Powder ... teams in counties across the country, including three in ...

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.