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 ...

fewer than 3,900 Kentuckians can find work in coal mines today, and Kentucky’s formerly company-owned coal towns are largely abandoned. Sometimes, abandoned mines can find new life as tourist ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

An unreclaimed mine is photographed in Pike County, Ky., on Friday ... people and the environment from the adverse impacts of coal mining while balancing the need for energy.

An out-of-state contractor says one of its longtime workers died while working at a West Virginia mining operation back on Friday. Kentucky-based ... and had been a coal miner for almost 30 ...