Will there be a coal shortage in the U. S. this winter?Said Solid Fuels Administrator Harold L. Ickes last week: "Coal production has been unable to keep pace with the expansion of ...

In early April, President Donald Trump gathered dozens of hard-hat-clad coal miners around him in the White House East Room. He joked about arm-wrestling them and announced he was signing ...

In coal country, Trump’s cuts to health programs put miners in danger. A federal program that screens coal miners for black lung disease has been shuttered because of layoffs and budget cuts.

It wasn’t clear whether grey smoke was closer to black or white, for example. By the 1970s, the straw method had been abandoned in favour of more controllable chemical mixtures.

In early April, President Donald Trump gathered dozens of hard-hat-clad coal miners around him in the White House East Room. He joked about arm-wrestling them and announced he was signing ...