The Oak Grove miners voted in favor of the contract earlier. Miners earn about $24 an hour starting out. Alabama's 10 underground coal mines produce about 20,000 tons of coal a year, which usually ...

An Oak Grove coal mine has a new owner - but how many miners ... and has had several waves of layoffs in Alabama this year. Earlier this year, North American Coal Corp. eliminated 118 workers ...

The Murray family is not unfamiliar with the central Alabama mine. Murray Oak Grove Coal LLC owned the facility from April 2019 to September 2020, according to federal mine records. ACNR ...

“The laws in the State of Alabama . . . all favor the mining companies,” Morris said. Lawyers defending Oak Grove mine in the Griffice lawsuit, for example, have pointed to state law as a way ...

But state law gives Morris little hope. "The laws in the state of Alabama ... all favor the mining companies," Morris said. Lawyers defending Oak Grove mine in the Griffice lawsuit, for example ...

Building a platform to do the job of 1 million analysts The mine, which contributes between 0.9 million tons and 1.4 million tons of metallurgical coal to the company’s North American coal ...

“The thoughts and prayers of every UMWA member are with the family of Jose Lara, who tragically lost his life in an incident last night at the Oak Grove Resources Mine in Bessemer, Alabama ...

Oak Grove residents including Clara Riley (left) and Lisa Lindsay (center) attend a meeting in central Alabama to discuss the consequences of longwall coal mining. (Lee Hedgepeth/ Inside Climate ...

As an Alabama mine has slowly approached the coal ... Since the March 8 explosion, MSHA inspectors have cited Oak Grove Mine a total of 204 times for safety violations. MSHA recently revealed ...

Alabama, has left one person dead. A statement from the West Virginia-based Seneca Coal Resources says a rail-hauling accident happened Monday night at the company's Oak Grove Mine in western ...

[Photo: Lee Hedgepeth/Inside Climate News] “The laws in the State of Alabama . . . all favor the mining companies,” Morris said. Lawyers defending Oak Grove mine in the Griffice lawsuit ...