Even as administration officials vowed this week to head off scheduled retirements, some aging plants are now breaking, and ...

How many coal miners were harmed and it didn't know it, during the recent Trump administration-led shutdown at the National ...

The Battle of Blair Mountain wasn't just a labor dispute gone wrong. It was the moment the federal government deployed troops ...

Wilburton marks 100 years since a deadly 1926 coal mine explosion that killed 91 miners, as city leaders and families honor ...

American emissions of carbon dioxide and methane had dropped 20% from 2005 to 2024, with a few one- or two-year increases in ...

Across the United States, once-booming industrial towns are now barely surviving, their streets and tax bases hollowed out by factory closures, population loss, and disinvestment. These 15 communities ...

Missouri has some of the worst maternal and infant mortality rates in the country. Some representatives look to solutions.

The Trump administration is badly stretching the law to keep open coal-fired power plants throughout the Midwest that otherwise would have shuttered under well-thought-out, long-term strategies. The ...

A memorial in honor of the 12 Sago miners who lost their lives was placed by the historic Covered Bridge in Philippi. Three of the men who died in the accident were from Barbour County. (Photo ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The days of January 2, 3, and 4 in 2006 turned out two of the biggest stories in West Virginia’s history. One of them was euphoric and the other left a long and painful legacy on ...

Federal officials have ordered a temporary halt to the planned shutdowns of two coal-burning Indiana power plants amid President Donald Trump’s attempts to boost the coal mining industry. The U.S.