Gizmodo reached out to the Trump administration and the UMWA for comment.

Safety advocates are bemoaning the delay of new safety standards to protect coal miners from deadly dust exposure.

President Trump signed four executive actions on Tuesday aimed at reversing policies that transitioned the country away from ...

After President Trump signed an executive order to boost the coal industry, the labor union United Mine Workers of America is ...

Navajo Nation President Buu Nygren says Donald Trump's push to revitalize coal could bring jobs, revenue and energy security.

Coal has been displaced by cheap and plentiful natural gas and the rapid growth of wind and solar energy — forces that ...

Former NIOSH employees are continuing to speak out against federal cuts that will negatively impact coal miner safety in West ...

that he would revive the coal industry and bring back all the jobs that had disappeared. “I love the miners, and we’re going to put the miners back to work,” he said at a rally that year.

Workers who say five mining companies stiffed them on overtime pay for duties completed before and after their official shifts reached a $2.6 million settlement resolving their wage claims.

"When I was a child, I'd look up and I'd see coal miners — seemingly larger than life, doubled over coughing, scarcely able to walk, work or breathe," Petsonk says, "I've seen it my whole life. I ...

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"When I was a child, I'd look up and I'd see coal miners — seemingly larger than life, doubled over coughing, scarcely able to walk, work or breathe," Petsonk says, "I've seen it my whole life.