The winner of this year's West Virginia Coal Festival teen beauty pageant walks among the ruins of a community abandoned 70 ...

Taking in the ruins of a former coal mine abandoned 60 years ago, WV's Coal Festival Teen imagines the rusted remains of the coal tipples and company stores.

As the Trump administration wages a trade war with China, West Virginia’s coal industry is bracing for economic shortfalls.

President Donald Trump's administration has proposed several changes that would affect the struggling US coal industry. Trump issued executive orders ...

From Europe to North America, an energy revolution is breathing new life into empty, long-forgotten coal mine shafts ... toward renewable storage in abandoned mines is supported by research ...