This is the coal town that powered the Seattle and Portland metropolitan areas for decades. But this year, for the first time since the Colstrip generating plant came to life in 1975, that flow of ...

Environmental advocates are sounding the alarm as a proposal to overturn a mining ban near the Boundary Waters Canoe Area ...

Heading into President Donald Trump’s second term, coal looked like an industry nearing the end of its life. Utilities planned to retire more than half of the nation’s coal-fired power plants by 2028, ...

Hannah Wiseman is affiliated with the Center for Progressive Reform. Along with a team of other Penn State researchers, she also received a seed grant from the Penn State Institute of Energy and the ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — The body of a coal miner was found early Thursday in a mine that flooded in southern West Virginia, Gov. Patrick Morrisey said. Machines had been pumping water out of Alpha ...

A massive search operation continued Wednesday in West Virginia, where officials said crews were "working around the clock" and continuing "aggressive" efforts to locate a missing coal miner who ...

Emergency responders were hoping to use an underwater drone Sunday to reach a miner trapped deep inside a flooded West Virginia coal mine, authorities said. A mining crew hit an unknown pocket of ...

The United States and China are caught in a race to return to the Moon. The two superpowers are hoping to reach the lunar surface by 2028 and 2030, respectively, in a rivalry that could have sweeping ...

Despite the Trump administration’s efforts to “reinvigorate” American coal, the industry isn’t gaining much steam. The Department of Interior offered up thousands of acres for coal mining on public ...

For just the second time in program history, the West Virginia Mountaineers will be wearing all black uniforms, paying homage to the state's coal mining industry and all of the hard-working folks who ...