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Coal Mine Safety: Protecting Miners - Documentary. Posted: March 11, 2025 | Last updated: March 11, 2025. The film discusses the critical health and safety issues in underground coal mining, ...
Watch the trailer for 'King Coal,' a documentary directed by Elaine McMillion Sheldon that explores the mythic power of Appalachian ... Only about 40,000 people work in coal mining in the U.S., ...
A dramatic marathon weekend session in the U.S. Senate elevated coal as a high priority among lawmakers who hammered out ...
Fairmont State University has partnered with Brazilian movie producer Andreza Araújo to host the U.S. premiere of “A Day to Remember,” a documentary about the Farmington No. 9 mining disaster ...
Timothy Novotney was a teenager in Hazleton when his friend moved into a house with a steel door in the basement.
She is also from a fourth-generation coal mining family. And her documentary is part poetry, part imagery, history and storytelling about the hold of coal on people's lives, fortunes and dreams ...
With four generations of coal mining in her family, West Virginia native Elaine McMillion Sheldon’s thoughts on coal – its storied past, complicated present and transitional future – is ...
Elaine McMillion Sheldon's documentary explores the reign of coal — and its consequences — in Appalachia. 'King Coal' Review: Appalachia Rises in Poetic Doc ...
CoalSafe 2015 conference speakers outline to Mining Weekly Online’s Martin Creamer that strong initiatives are under way to implement zero harm practices in the South African coal-mining sector ...