President Donald Trump gathered dozens of hard-hat-clad coal miners around him in the White House East Room. He joked about ...

U.S. District Judge Irene C. Berger said Trump administration officials lack the authority to unilaterally cancel the ...

That same day, the Trump administration paused implementation of a rule that would help protect coal miners from an aggressive form of black lung disease. Enforcement of the new protections is ...

When the federal government tried to fire a team protecting coal miners from Wyoming to West Virginia from black lung disease ...

Two West Virginia coal miners with black lung disease testified before a federal judge on Wednesday during a hearing on the Trump administration’s decision to effectively shutter a program that ...

The Department of Health and Human Services on Tuesday reversed the firings of more than 100 federal employees with the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, the federal institute ...

The MSHA field offices are located near areas of heavy mining operations and closing would make the inspectors’ access more difficult due to increased travel time. The inspections are congressionally ...

A judge ordered the restoration of a health monitoring program for coal miners in West Virginia and rescinded layoffs.