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Sam Petsonk grew up around southern West Virginia's mining communities, visiting patients with his father, one of the country's first doctors to specialize in Black Lung Disease. "When I was a child, ...

Metallurgical coal feeds U.S. Steel’s Clairton Coke Works near Pittsburgh. A surprise beneficiary in the budget mega bill signed by President Donald Trump on July 4 is a type of coal used in the ...

In the parts of the financial world that have spent the decade since the Paris Agreement trying to curb the most-polluting fossil fuel, there are actually two distinct types of coal — with two very ...

The Spring Creek Coal Mine is already the largest in Montana and will get the expansion it has been seeking for more than 20 years. On Thursday, the Department of the Interior announced that the mine ...