A judge has ordered the restoration of a health monitoring program for coal miners in West Virginia and rescinded layoffs in ...

The company town built America. Elon Musk is betting it can colonize Mars and save humanity, too. The latest step in Musk’s ...

HHS has reversed the firings of more than 100 employees with the federal institute that protects coal miners from black lung, ...

Over 100 federal employees who screen coal miners for black lung disease and research other respiratory disease who had been ...

There’s a strange pull to New Mexico’s ghost towns. Maybe it’s the quiet, maybe it’s the mystery. Or maybe, it’s just fun to ...

Koidu Limited, Sierra Leone's largest diamond producer, has halted operations and laid off nearly its entire local workforce ...

A new exhibition is exploring loss and changing landscapes following the demise of the mining industry. Going Back Brockens: ...

Workers’ legal rights are inherently precarious in a capitalist economy. Only periodic mass upheaval has renewed them.

FARMINGTON, N.M. – President Trump recently signed an executive order to try and reinvigorate coal mining in the U.S.. The Four Corners Region is home to the third-largest coal producer in the ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Retired coal miner Stanley “Goose” Stewart questions whether it's safe for anyone to work in the industry right now. The Department of Government Efficiency, created by ...

Eric Anderson, a 44-year-old coal miner, voted for Donald Trump to keep West Virginia’s mines humming and applauded the president’s executive orders allowing power plants to burn more coal.