If ever there was a sorry story that illustrates just how things work in Frankfort, this is it. If ever there was proof that rural voters, especially in the coalfields, send people to the General Assembly for the purpose of grabbing their urban ...

SPARWOOD, British Columbia -- Thousands of people gathered in the small mining town of Sparwood, British Columbia, Sunday to bid a final farewell to eight local snowmobilers who were doing what they loved when they died last weekend in a string of ...

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) ? Three Virginia sites are among 10 in the South that the Southern Environmental Law Center regards as most endangered. The list released Monday is the first by the SELC, but deputy director Jeff Gleason said the center ...

University of Kentucky researchers are among a growing number around the world looking at algae as a potential answer to our energy puzzle. Call it the pond scum solution. While most of the research into these oily aquatic plants focuses on how to ...

Three Virginia sites are among ten in the South that the Southern Environmental Law Center regards as most endangered. The list released Monday is the first by the SELC, but deputy director Jeff Gleason says the center plans to take an annual ...

Three Virginia sites are among 10 in the South that the Southern Environmental Law Center regards as most endangered. The list released Monday is the first by the SELC, but deputy director Jeff Gleason said the center plans to take an annual ...

More than 250 miners from the Minyor coal mine, west of Sofia, have gone on a 30-day unpaid leave as of January 5. Moreover, the Pernik-based quarry company will go into administration and ultimately close, as there has been a severe decline in ...

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An inability to retain inspectors is hurting West Virginia's efforts to make the inherently dangerous business of coal mining safer. Faced with a turnover rate topping 20 percent, the state is ...

The revitalized mining sector in B.C., after successive record annual exploration spending, including in the north and central regions of the province, is expected to slow down in the coming year.The slowdown is a direct response to tumbling mineral prices, stock values and tightening credit precipitated by the global financial crisis.Signs of the slowdown can already be seen.Terrane Metals has ...

YAVATMAL: The sub divisional magistrate has directed the officers of Western Coalfield Limited (WCL) to take up the rehabilitation work of the village which the firm undertook for mining. Sub divisional magistrate of Wani, Vijay Bhakare paid an ...

SPARWOOD, B.C. - The coal mining that first brought people to the area around this small community more than a century ago has come with its share of loss and hardship, leaving a legacy that has made the avalanche deaths of eight Sparwood men all the more difficult to cope with.

A congressional leader from Southern West Virginias coalfields called Tuesday for national standards to govern the design, construction and other safety standards of coal-ash dams like the one that broke last week in eastern Tennessee.House Natural Resourc...

FRANKFORT A coal company has agreed to pay more than $276,000 in past-due penalties for federal mine safety violations at five underground locations. U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration chief Richard Stickler said Liggett Mining had failed to pay fines on at least 300 citations dating back to March 2007 at five mines in Eastern Kentucky. Stickler said the settlement is the largest ...

Environmental group: Tennessee spill shows coal wrong way to go in Ohio

After turning in a robust performance through June, most mining companies stumbled as automobile, housing and other manufacturers who use their metals cut back amid a global recession.

A Kentucky coal company has agreed to pay more than $276,000 in past-due penalties for federal mine safety violations at five underground locations.

This month, documentary maker Mari-Lynn Evans will finish her latest project, a 90-minute film tentatively called Coal Power. But while the shooting, editing and overall production will be done, Evans will not be done with the topic or its meaning ...