Miners and their advocates worry that DOGE's cuts to the Mine Safety and Health Administration will put them at risk.

DOGE terminated leases for more mine safety offices in Kentucky than any other state, a move advocates say comes at the expense of miners' health.

and it will endanger and destroy the lives of coal miners," said Willie Dodson, coal impacts program manager for Appalachian Voices. "MSHA needs more inspectors, MSHA needs more resources," he said.

With President Donald Trump back in office, fossil fuels are again at the forefront of the nation’s energy policy. Trump ...

Diversified Energy president and chief financial officer Brad Gray claimed that his company's natural gas and coal mine methane footprint is "advantageously positioned in the Appalachian Region" to ...

Palmetto Publishing launches W. Robert Angles’s breathtaking work of regional literary fiction The Divides of my Brethren ...

A former surface mine in Pike County, in Eastern Kentucky, had not been fully reclaimed in December 2023 even though there had been no mining at the site in several years. Appalachian Voices Coal ...

Researchers from The University of Texas at Austin have released estimates that U.S. coal ash contains 11 million tons of ...