Former miners at the Coal Creek Miners Museum were excited and proud to show what life was once like for thousands of people. The vast untapped resources of coal in Tennessee brought the promise ...

The Trump administration has cut programs that protected workers from lung disease, aided those afflicted, and kept miners safe.

Even as President Trump vows to reinvigorate America's coal industry, critics say his administration has stripped away key health protections for miners.

A group of coal miners got initial court approval for a deal ending their class action claims that their employers violated ...

The CDC unit that monitored all coal workers' health, including black lung disease, is gone. Their physicians wonder, "Now what?" ...

A decades-old program operated by NIOSH to detect lung disease in coal miners is one of the federal programs that have been suspended.

There were 69 workers inside the coal mine at the time of the explosion at 9 p.m. local time. Iranian miners look on at the scene of a blast at a coal mine in Tabas in Iran's Khorasan province on ...

The CDC unit that dramatically reduced Black Lung Disease among coal miners has been fired in Trump's sweeping overhaul of health agencies. Mining communities must now grapple with its disappearance.

Josh Cochran worked deep in the coal mines of West Virginia since he was 22 years old, pulling a six-figure salary that allowed him to buy a home with his wife Stephanie and hunt and fish in his ...

A coal miner was killed on the job in northern West Virginia earlier this week, Gov. Jim Justice announced Friday. William "Joe" Crandall was killed in an incident at Arch Resource's ACI Tygart ...

The president has put his weight behind boosting coal, but trade associations and the nation's largest union say recent policies spell trouble.

The CDC unit that dramatically reduced Black Lung Disease among coal miners has been fired in Trump's sweeping overhaul of health agencies. Mining communities must now grapple with its disappearance.