A Charleston native is the U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration’s new leader as it launches a new fight against unions ...

Mine worker unions aren’t facing any imminent harm from a regulation on silica dust, the federal government said in its bid ...

Hopes that Donald Trump's executive orders will revive the coal industry have been tempered by the administration's cuts to ...

Va., says he is worried that President Donald Trump may try to weaken recently enacted silica standards that are designed to protect American coal miners. Kaine, who met last week with the Daily ...

Federal laws and other regulations require that rules written by federal agencies use scientific evidence about how to minimize risk. And under an executive order signed by President Bill Clinton in ...

Josh Cochran worked deep in the coal mines of West Virginia since he was 22 years old, pulling a six-figure salary that ...

SILENT BOOK CLUB —May 8, 5:45-7 p.m., at The Book Cellar, 112 Court St., Abingdon, VA. Free. Join us for Silent Book Club on the second Thursday of each month. Bring your current read, grab a drink, & ...

Last year, MSHA finalised a new regulation that would cut by half the permissible exposure limit to crystalline silica for miners and other workers – an attempt to combat the rising rates of ...

We owe it to every worker who never made it home and to every worker still fighting to stay safe on the job. Because we are not just fighting for better laws. We are fighting for our lives.

Much of that work involved research into how inhaling silica affects a person’s health and how much exposure is required to lead to disease. In 2019, the federal Mine Safety and Health ...