Joe Pizarchik, who led the federal Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement from 2009 to 2017, says Alabama’s ...

Methane is a potent greenhouse gas. It is released from natural sources (like wetlands) and human activities (coal mining, ...

One worker from the Endeavor mine said he didn’t know when or if it would reopen. He said conditions there were not safe, ...

More details have emerged after two people were killed and another injured in a mine explosion believed to be caused by a ...

An explosion in a coal mine in eastern Iran killed at least 34 workers and injured 17 others, officials said Sunday, marking one of the worst mining disasters in the country's history as others ...

The rubble of W.M. Griffice’s home after an explosion above a longwall coal mine on March 8, 2024, in Oak Grove, Ala. In a letter to federal regulators, the director of the Alabama Surface Mining ...

Monk, whose son was one of 29 workers killed in the 2010 Pike River disaster in New Zealand, extends condolences to the ...

Benny Willingham worked as a miner for 30 years before he was killed. April 6, 2010 — -- Many of the men who died in the depths of a West Virginia coal mine Monday often discussed with family ...

Rescuers searching for miners trapped by a coal mine explosion in northeast China found six more bodies early Wednesday, bringing the death toll in the country's worst mining disaster in decades to ...

As the economic engine for the region, coal offered solid work. But it has also used up water, polluted the air and raised ...