Joe Pizarchik, who led the federal Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement from 2009 to 2017, says Alabama’s ...

Methane is a potent greenhouse gas. It is released from natural sources (like wetlands) and human activities (coal mining, ...

Two people are dead and a third has been hospitalised following an underground mine explosion in western NSW believed to be ...

One worker from the Endeavor mine said he didn’t know when or if it would reopen. He said conditions there were not safe, ...

The rubble of W.M. Griffice’s home after an explosion above a longwall coal mine on March 8, 2024, in Oak Grove, Ala. In a letter to federal regulators, the director of the Alabama Surface Mining ...

An explosion in a coal mine in eastern Iran killed at least 34 workers and injured 17 others, officials said Sunday, marking one of the worst mining disasters in the country's history as others ...

Monk, whose son was one of 29 workers killed in the 2010 Pike River disaster in New Zealand, extends condolences to the ...

Rescuers searching for miners trapped by a coal mine explosion in northeast China found six more bodies early Wednesday, bringing the death toll in the country's worst mining disaster in decades to ...

Benny Willingham worked as a miner for 30 years before he was killed. April 6, 2010 — -- Many of the men who died in the depths of a West Virginia coal mine Monday often discussed with family ...

As the economic engine for the region, coal offered solid work. But it has also used up water, polluted the air and raised ...