A new documentary film, “Blood on the Mountain,” which examines the cycle of exploitation of people and the environment by West Virginia’s coal industry, opened this week in New York to good reviews.

POTTSVILLE – David Heineman reviews 300 years of coal region history without uttering a single word. In NEPADOC, a cutting-edge documentary of northeast Pennsylvania, Heineman relies on time-lapse ...

EXCLUSIVE: Only about 40,000 people work in coal mining in the U.S., a modest number compared to other lines of work – 1.7 million people, for instance, are employed in the auto industry. And yet coal ...

Learn how coal played a vital role in shaping the Utah we know today. The coal mining industry has been the backbone of rural parts of Utah for over a century. From extraction to refining, Utahns who ...

Jan. 5, 2006— -- Out of one of the toughest and most dangerous jobs in the world have come generations of powerful stories, almost all hinging on life and death and the suspense of waiting. "You ...

A new way of seeing the history of anthracite coal mining brought Pam Hummell of the Grove City Historical Society to the ...

LACKAWANNA COUNTY, Pa. — Pieces of history on the move to Scranton's McDade Park. These artifacts all came from what's left of the Moffat Coal Breaker, an important part of Lackawanna County's coal ...

Jun. 17—GROVE CITY — The Grove City Area Historical Society opened its second new exhibit this year as part of its speaker series June 3. The speakers were those who spearheaded the project — Mining ...

LACKAWANNA COUNTY, Pa. — Pieces of history on the move to Scranton's McDade Park. These artifacts all came from what's left of the Moffat Coal Breaker, an important part of Lackawanna County's coal ...

The collapse of an 11-story coal mining plant in Martin County left two workers trapped under the rubble as crews worked to free them Wednesday. One of the workers has since been confirmed dead. But ...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — An explosion in a coal mine in eastern Iran killed at least 34 workers and injured 17 others, officials said Sunday, marking one of the worst mining disasters in the country’s ...