5 Block coal is mined, mostly in eastern Kanawha and Clay counties. Development of the Kanawha Coal Field The Kanawha Coal Field is one of the oldest fields in West Virginia. The first commercial ...

The coal-producing areas of West Virginia have been traditionally defined as fields, each field corresponding to a given geographical location or region of the state. Our readers should note that a ...

Iran says it believes the remaining workers trapped by an explosion at a coal mine in the country’s east have died, bringing ...

Two area lawmakers have introduced a bill that will provide a tax credit for the capturing and repurposing of methane emissions from active and abandoned mines. The legislation, which is being called ...

A project that will demonstrate the conversion of a former coal mine in Bell County, Kentucky, into a utility-scale 287-MW ...

While the coal industry is in terminal decline, it still shapes the culture of central Appalachia.

The Methane Reduction and Economic Growth Act would create a tax credit to incentivize the capture of methane emissions from ...

Only 26 miles, but a world away from West Virginia’s state capital is Nellis, a former coal town tucked away from the main ...

Zacharias Szumer updates the tally with three freshly announced approvals. The Albanese government’s fossil fuel approval tally has risen to twelve after Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek approved ...

By WVUA 23 Digital Reporter Madison Brainerd The Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement awarded the Alabama ...

A Family’s Story,” a memoir set in southern West Virginia from the end of World War II to the beginning of the 1960s, will be reviewed by ...

Currently, 25 states have coal mining operations in place. The term “coal stock” refers to any company involved in coal mining, processing or burning. A company with a coal stock might be ...