Jeffrey Willig doesn’t mine coal anymore. For nine years he worked underground, most recently for a company called Blackjewel, which laid off around 1,700 workers in June of 2019 without paying them.

The world's largest land vehicle may surprise you, as it's not a car or a plane, but a colossal excavator designed with a ...

Has the time come to make coal great again? Maybe. “Coal is cheap and far less profitable to export than to burn domestically. so, let’s burn it here,” says Steve Milloy, a veteran observer of the ...

HAYDEN, Colo. — For decades, Dallas Robinson’s family excavation company developed coal mines and power plants in the rugged, fossil-fuel-rich region of northwest Colorado. It was a good business to ...

Two people died in a rockslide early Friday morning while digging for coal, according to Clay County Emergency Management. The incident happened along an embankment on Stone Gap Road in the Oneida ...

This story is part of a Grist package examining how President Trump's first 100 days in office have reshaped climate and environmental policy in the U.S. Jeffrey Willig doesn’t mine coal anymore. For ...