Former coal communities face higher death rates from suicide, drugs and alcohol revealing lasting effects of industrial decline.

Researchers believe that pollution in Pittsburgh could be claiming the lives of around 3,000 people a year, especially in ...

The National Green Tribunal has directed the Meghalaya Chief Secretary and other authorities to respond to the deaths of miners in an illegally operated rat-hole coal mine in East Jaintia Hills ...

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A coal mining company charged over the death of an underground worker “didn’t even follow its own safety practices”, trial ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — The nation’s coal mines are nearing a record low mark for on-the-job deaths for the third year in a row and have a chance to keep the number of fatal accidents in single digits ...

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The body of Steve Lipscomb, a 38-year-old father and veteran coal miner, who had been trapped underground in the Rolling Thunder Mine in West Virginia for five days, was recovered Thursday morning, ...

“Our deepest sympathies are with the families who have lost their loved ones in this unfortunate tragedy,” Lyngdoh told UCA News on Feb. 12. He also urged the government to take firm measures to ...

A global mining giant has been totally cleared of all charges over a horror underground incident that resulted in the crush ...