I stood on the main street of a coal town in West Virginia with the mayor. “That used to be a diner, that was a bakery, that ...

(AP Photo/John Raby, File) A memorial to 29 miners killed in a 2010 explosion stands at the entrance to the Upper Big Branch ...

In the mid-1700s, the earliest area anthracite mines offered secure employment for local residents. Nearly 250 years later, ...

Miners of the Rhondda paid for Tylorstown Welfare Hall out of their wages 90 years ago, but the building was at risk of being ...

Piles of coal refuse still litter the landscape ... They plan to turn remnants of the mine entrance into a playground, building balance beams onto the old foundation and cleaning up the water ...

Retired coal miner Stanley "Goose" Stewart ... to 29 miners killed in a 2010 explosion stands at the entrance to the Upper Big Branch mine in Montcoal, W.Va., Dec. 3, 2015. (AP Photo/John Raby ...

Start of the environmental restoration works at the Cerredo opencast mine Trump orders removal of historic tree at White House entrance Happy Gilmore 2 official teaser trailer A month without coffee: ...

Saturday marks the 15th anniversary of the deadliest mine disaster in more than half a century at the Upper Big Branch mine.

The accident occurred at Kunyuan Coal Mine in Jixi's Hengshan district at ... But the steel rope lifting the cars broke before reaching the entrance. Seven workers immediately jumped to escape ...

President Donald Trump is expected to sign executive orders Tuesday aimed at boosting coal, a reliable but polluting energy ...

At another, the walls of its entrance hall were proudly lined with patent certificates ... which could lead to long-term carbon lock-in across sectors such as coal mining, coal power and coke ...

In Honoured Memory: a guided tour of Elswick Cemetery starts at 11am on Friday April 4 at the entrance to cemetery ... context of other accidents in the coal mining areas of Tyneside.