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

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

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 ...

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

The democratic process of scientific study, public debate and comment helps regulators arrive at a rule that balances the ...

Attorney James McHugh has been tapped to serve as deputy assistant secretary at the US Labor Department’s Mine Safety and ...

A decades-old program operated by NIOSH to detect lung disease in coal miners is one of the federal programs that have been ...

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

A federal program that screens coal miners for black lung disease has been shuttered because of layoffs and budget cuts.

That includes terminating leases for three dozen offices in the Mine Safety and Health Administration, the agency responsible for enforcing mine safety laws. The proposals for MSHA are “idiotic ...

OpEd: Kentucky residents who care about the welfare of working miners should ask Congressman Hal Rogers what he plans to do to keep regional MSHA offices open, and to keep miners safe.