WILLIAMSON, WV (WOWK) – If you travel to the town of Williamson, West Virginia ... 1 p.m. The Coal House began as an idea ...

State regulators pulled a permit for a surface mine tied to West Virginia Republican Sen. Jim Justice’s family, citing a string of ongoing, unaddressed violations. A coal mine in West Virginia ...

In the Mine Wars that erupted in southern West Virginia over the first two decades of the 20th century, coal miners and coal ... to see one old woman who is not afraid of all the blood-hounds." ...

Some of the victims were as young as 8 years old. The West Virginia ... the explosions of the Fairmont Coal Company’s No. 6 and 8 mines in Monongah, West Virginia. The blasts happened around ...

“There’s almost zero reason to be completely optimistic,” says Ted Boettner, executive director of the West Virginia Center on Budget & Policy. “It’s a disservice to coal-mining ...

The Radical Teacher No. 102, Summer 2015 Resource Wars: An On the Ground Understa... Resource Wars: An On the Ground Understanding of Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining in Appalachia, West Virginia This ...

president of the West Virginia Highlands Conservancy. “The Forest Service failed to consider that converting a National Forest road to a heavy-use coal haul road would have direct environmental ...

The country's top mine safety expert was part of a panel that appeared Tuesday afternoon in a Senate hearing about the recent explosion that killed 29 West Virginia coal miners in the worst U.S ...