Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. At the base of a barren mountain, near a long-abandoned machine shop along a highway in rural Letcher County lies an unassuming ...

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 ...

At 4:07 p.m., May 19, 1928, the whistle blew at Mather Mine, alerting people of an emergency. The explosion that caused it, and the loss of life that followed over the coming days, continues to be ...

There has been a resurgence of black lung disease, also known as Coal Worker’s Pneumoconiosis (CWP), in recent years among miners in the central Appalachian coalfields. Long considered an affliction ...

“The coal dust is rising and the warnings are out there that it’s getting more and more dangerous,” says Bob Wyss, a former reporter PROVIDENCE — At 3:25 p.m. on March 25, 1947, coal dust ignited, ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Faced with a small methane gas fire that couldn't be extinguished in a highly volatile underground mine, at least two victims of the country's deadliest coal mine explosion in ...

The Maryland Department of the Environment is requiring CSX to build a large windscreen around coal storage piles at its Curtis Bay terminal to reduce harmful dust — but nearby residents and ...

At the base of a barren mountain, near a long-abandoned machine shop along a highway in rural Letcher County lies an unassuming pond shrouded in overgrowth and surrounded by metal pipes and rusted ...