After 100 days, Trump's vow to boost coal belies cuts to miner health programs. For John Robinson, a retired coal miner who spent his career in the Virginia mines helping to power America into the ...

Coal was once America’s largest source of electricity generation, but it has been on the decline for more than a decade. The U.S. produced 578 million short tons of coal in 2023, less than half ...

He’s proud of being a coal miner. But he doesn’t want anyone else to face his fate – or the myriad other dangers miners confront on the job.

She said her son now works as a coal miner, despite the dangers he grew up hearing about. “My husband had 30 years in the coal mines and my son has 12 years underground,” she said.