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West Virginia mining regulators have approved the expansion of a coal mine in an area that residents say is already contaminated by a bankrupted coal mine.

The U.S. Department of Labor’s Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) released three proposed rules on July 1 aimed at revising the criteria for approving safety plans in underground coal mines.

Your Reporter Alan Gionet reports on a wide variety of issues and specializes in covering stories in Colorado's foothills. Share you story ideas with him by sending an email to [email protected].

SYCAMORE — Coal industry leaders gathered with the state House Republican Policy Committee for a Wednesday hearing on “The Positive Impacts of Coal” held hundreds of feet underground in a Greene ...

The troubled underground coal mine in Donkin, Cape Breton, is for sale, according to a news release from a Nova Scotia company with ties to the mine. Morien Resources, a publicly traded company that ...

BOULDER COUNTY, Colo. (KDVR) — A fire that has been burning for more than a century in Boulder County has been extinguished. Underneath the present-day Marshall Mesa trailhead lies one of 14,000 ...

Crews tearing apart a 1.5-acre pile of coal mine refuse that has been smoldering for two decades recently uncovered a section which measured 300 degrees Fahrenheit. The Corley Mine Surface Burn ...