For the past 250 years, people have mined coal industrially in Pennsylvania, U.S.. By 1830, the city of Pittsburgh was using more than 400 tons of the fossil fuel every day. Burning all that coal has ...

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On Tuesday, federal officials posted new rules to protect coal and other miners from toxic silica dust, a growing problem in mines that has left thousands sick and dying. It took mine safety ...

Twelve years ago, former Wall Street banker Randall Atkins bought an old coal mine outside Sheridan, Wyo., sight unseen, for about $2 million. He thought the mine might eke out a profit. Instead, ...

BROOKWOOD, Ala.—The Trump administration has announced it will aim to fast-track the permitting and environmental review of a major coal mine expansion in central Alabama as part of a larger effort to ...

The Trump administration will invest $625 million in the coal industry and reopen 13.1 million acres of federal land in states such as Montana, Wyoming, and Tennessee to coal mining to support ...

Heavy equipment is now at work at the Marshall Mesa Trailhead in Boulder County, digging and tossing and mixing and replacing. That is how a coal fire is doused. "Certainly based on its location, ...

Environmental groups had opposed expanding a Montana mine previously caught up in allegations of cocaine trafficking and the faked kidnapping of an executive. By Hiroko Tabuchi The Trump ...

An explosion in a coal mine in eastern Iran killed at least 33 workers and injured 17 others, officials said Sunday, marking one of the worst mining disasters in the country's history as others ...

Warrior Met Coal is getting closer to production on a project that it says could produce up to $1.3 billion annually in metallurgical coal. The Brookwood-based company said the mine could begin ...

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