President Donald Trump signed executive orders Tuesday aimed at boosting the coal industry in Kentucky and across the country ...

The moves include loosening environmental rules, but it is unclear how much they can help reverse the sharp decline in coal ...

WASHINGTON, D. C. - Flanked by dozens of hard-hatted coal miners at a ceremony in the White House East Room, President Donald ...

A survivor of a W. Va. mine disaster that killed 29 workers 15 years ago is speaking out against a Trump recommendation to ...

In addition, Trump directed Interior Secretary Doug Burgum to acknowledge the termination of the Jewel Moratorium, which ...

Attorney General Russell Coleman praised an executive order to prevent the closing of coal-fired power plants. AG Coleman ...

The federal government wants the number of offices that oversee U.S. mine safety laws to align more with a shrinking coal ...

Madon, with the backing of the Kentucky Coal Association, has touted the bill as a move to relieve industries from housing ...

many of them underground operations in West Virginia and Kentucky, which have nearly half of the nation’s coal mines. Under the second Trump administration, the impact inspections have stopped.

West Virginia employed the most miners at 14,000, followed by Kentucky at 5,000. About half of the nation’s 560 coal mines are located in West Virginia (165) and Kentucky (112). Despite having ...