The Trump administration’s Department of the Interior has issued a proposal to roll back improvements made in 2024 to a rule that allows the public to request federal inspections of coal mines to ...

FOSTER, West Virginia— Robert Cash, a third-generation coal miner, prays each morning with his fellow miners before going underground for a long shift. In the coalfields of Appalachian West ...

The Trump administration has cut programs that protected workers from lung disease, aided those afflicted, and kept miners ...

With the support of a burdensome oxygen machine, Robinson joined a handful of other retired Central Appalachian miners to sit down with ABC News' Jay O'Brien in the heart of coal country.

affects roughly 1 in 5 miners who have worked in the Central Appalachian mines for twenty-five years or more, according to NIOSH. Inhaled silica dust particles travel down airways and into the ...

When miners protested Trump’s move to shutter safety offices and a health program for black lung disease, his administration reversed course.

Mine Safety and Health Administration pick Wayne Palmer will get a committee vote Thursday. Environmental and Appalachian advocacy groups are demanding a full Senate hearing — and not just a ...

The Trump administration appears to have backtracked on an earlier decision to close more than 30 offices that enforce mine ...

The companies would have 2.3 billion tons of coal reserves balanced between higher-profit Appalachian mines and high-volume western operations. Their 91 million tons of annual production from 59 ...

affects roughly 1 in 5 miners who have worked in the Central Appalachian mines for twenty-five years or more, according to NIOSH. Inhaled silica dust particles travel down airways and into the ...