A West Virginia lawmaker has introduced a bill in the U.S. House of Representatives that seeks to streamline the process for coal mining permits. U.S. Rep. Carol Miller, R-W.Va., joined U.S. Rep.

Bluestone Coal Corporation’s Poca surface mine’s mining permit was suspended by the West Virginia Department of Environmental ...

A mining company in West Virginia is facing a lawsuit from conservation groups that claim it has violated federal ...

The coal-producing areas of West Virginia have been traditionally defined as fields, each field corresponding to a given geographical location or region of the state. Our readers should note that a ...

Advocates want federal regulators to shut down what they say is an illegal coal haul road in West Virginia's Monongahela ...

As of 3:32 p.m., the fire at Leer South Mine in Barbour County that started early Monday morning is still burning.

5 Block coal is mined, mostly in eastern Kanawha and Clay counties. Development of the Kanawha Coal Field The Kanawha Coal Field is one of the oldest fields in West Virginia. The first commercial ...

The country's top mine safety expert was part of a panel that appeared Tuesday afternoon in a Senate hearing about the recent explosion that killed 29 West Virginia coal miners in the worst U.S ...

PHILIPPI, W.Va. — Investigators with the state Office of Miner’s Health, Safety, and Training along with federal regulators ...

West Virginia is home to the greatest number of coal miners in the country—14,014 as of 2023—which is roughly one-third of all U.S. coal miners. The aforementioned 42,600 coal mining jobs made ...