Since 1970, more than 75,000 miners have died of black lung disease. Now, researchers working to prevent those deaths get ...

Though the share of electricity being generated by coal is shrinking, the amount of coal being burned continues to increase ...

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 ...

Deep in the Bo'ness countryside is the entrance to an amazing feat of engineering which once allowed people to walk from one ...

At its height in the late 19th century, thousands of men and boys worked down the mines, which were dotted all around Bedminster and Ashton, particularly along West Street in Bedminster and in the ...

Eastern Kentucky offers an abundance of natural beauty along with cultural heritage and historic sites. Here are some of the ...

Silica dust exposure is not unique to coal miners, who represent a small sliver of miners in the U.S. Silicosis is common in miners at all sorts of mines. While coal workers are eligible for “Part 90” ...

With Ken Henry back in the fold, Jim Chalmers has put tax at the centre of Labor’s post-election productivity push. It won’t ...

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For some coal miners, pausing the black lung programs at the National Institute For Occupational Safety and Health created an immediate problem, because without a stamp of approval from the institute, ...