With a few exceptions, most remaining coal mining in Kentucky consists of small mines, said the committee’s chairman, state Sen. Phillip Wheeler, R-Pikeville. Requiring these mines to have two ...

But the tension continues. Every week several mines are blown up, and just recently a coal operator's home in Hazard, Ky., was dynamited. Rumors spread quickly and are embellished extensively in ...

The tiny town of Benham, Kentucky, was originally built to serve the coal mining industry. Now it's embracing solar energy. Benham, population 500, will soon get an array of solar panels atop the ...

Minutes after a widow emotionally testified about losing her 29-year-old husband in a deadly 2005 coal mine accident in Harlan County because the first aid available in the mine was inadequate to ...

Currently in Kentucky, two emergency trained workers are required at mines while they’re producing coal, no matter the size. But Republican politicians claim this disadvantages mine operators ...

It’s just sitting there.” The mine in Pike County is one of hundreds of surface-mined coal sites across Eastern Kentucky that have not been fully reclaimed as quickly as they should have ...

If all the targeted offices close, it would leave only two MSHA offices in place to police more than 100 Kentucky coal mines, where millions of tons are produced every year. Only a handful of ...

A bill that will loosen Kentucky's protections over groundwater and other important water resources passed in the state legislature. Supporters said the bill would ease regulations for coal mining ...