As Gov. Patrick Morrisey celebrated a new education center at West Virginia University that will supposedly promote "education, not indoctrina…
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A federal judge on Tuesday granted a request from a Kanawha County man who works at a Raleigh County mine for an order to restore the respirat…
West Virginians have heard the stories of the coal industry and its history in the region over and over. When we hear the stories of violent l…
I’ve been to Washington, D.C., six times to meet with our congressional delegation as part of my work with the Black Lung Association. But thi…
It was 1930. It was The Great Depression. There was no “New Deal” yet.
Earlier this year, we praised the U.S. Department of Labor’s Mine Safety and Health Administration for enacting a new rule to tighten silica d…
A bulldozer piles up coal at an Alpha Natural Resources preparation plant near Yolyn, Logan County, in 2015.
Patty and Gary Quarles lost their son, Gary Wayne Quarles, in the explosion at Upper Big Branch mine. Their son's post-mortem indicated he had…
Dr. Donald Rasmussen, 84, is a pulmonologist in Beckley. He figures he's tested 40,000 coal miners in the last 50 years.
An unidentified coal miner is tested for black lung in a mobile clinic run by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH…
