Former coal communities face higher death rates from suicide, drugs and alcohol revealing lasting effects of industrial decline.

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The National Green Tribunal has directed the Meghalaya Chief Secretary and other authorities to respond to the deaths of miners in an illegally operated rat-hole coal mine in East Jaintia Hills ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — The nation’s coal mines are nearing a record low mark for on-the-job deaths for the third year in a row and have a chance to keep the number of fatal accidents in single digits ...

The body of Steve Lipscomb, a 38-year-old father and veteran coal miner, who had been trapped underground in the Rolling Thunder Mine in West Virginia for five days, was recovered Thursday morning, ...

A global mining giant has been totally cleared of all charges over a horror underground incident that resulted in the crush ...

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“Our deepest sympathies are with the families who have lost their loved ones in this unfortunate tragedy,” Lyngdoh told UCA News on Feb. 12. He also urged the government to take firm measures to ...

(AP) - Crews desperately continued removing massive amounts of water in an effort to locate a trapped worker inside a flooded coal mine in West Virginia as the work entered a fifth day Wednesday. Gov.