Attorneys for Don Blankenship and the federal government are back in court this week as the former coal operator appeals...
Upper Big Branch News
Six years after 29 miners were killed in a West Virginia coal dust explosion, the man who ran the mining...
Relatives of three of the 29 men killed in the Upper Big Branch mine disaster say Alpha Natural Resources has...
Labor Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis announced a final rule to strengthen safety in the nation’s most dangerous mines....
Black lung diagnoses have doubled in the last decade, and a new investigation blames a combination of factors, including operators...
A U.S. judge sentenced the former security chief at a West Virginia mine to three years in prison after being...
West Virginia’s House of Delegates has unanimously approved legislation meant to prevent a repeat of the deadly Upper Big Branch...
Federal investigators will soon release their final report on the 2010 explosion that killed 29 men at West Virginia’s Upper...
The company that owned the coal mine where 29 miners died in the worst U.S. mining disaster in four decades...