Coal mining

NLRB: Mine workers to pay Alabama coal company over $13M

August 3, 2022 GMT

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — A federal oversight board ordered the United Mine Workers of America to pay more than $13 million in compensation to an Alabama coal company where members have been on strike for more than a year, a ruling the union said Wednesday it would challenge.

Russian official says Norway unblocks food for miners

July 6, 2022 GMT

BARENTSBURG, Norway (AP) — Russian food supplies bound for an Arctic coal mining settlement have resumed transiting via mainland Norway after weeks of tension, a Russian representative said Wednesday.

Czech Republic to extend coal mining amid high demand

June 30, 2022 GMT

PRAGUE (AP) — The Czech Republic has decided to reverse plans to halt mining in a key black coal region to help the country safeguard its power supply amid high demand and the energy crunch prompted by the Russia's war in Ukraine.

Play about Upper Big Branch disaster to be performed in WVa

April 26, 2022 GMT

BECKLEY, W.Va. (AP) — A play based on the 2010 Upper Big Branch coal mining disaster that killed 29 miners will be performed in southern West Virginia next month.

“Coal Country” recently ended an off-Broadway run in New York City.

Rescuers reach 4 of 10 miners missing at coal mine in Poland

April 23, 2022 GMT

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Rescue workers in southern Poland have reached four of the 10 miners who went missing early Saturday after a powerful underground tremor and methane gas discharge hit, mining authorities said.

Solar panel farm planned on former WVa coal mine site

April 5, 2022 GMT

JULIAN, W.Va. (AP) — A 3,000-acre solar energy farm is planned on a former coal mining site in southern West Virginia, project officials said.

The estimated $320 million project will be built at the Rock Creek Development Park along the borders of Boone and Lincoln County by the newly formed SEVA WV, a unit of Kansas City, Missouri-based Savion Energy.

Body of Kentucky coal miner found after underground collapse

March 22, 2022 GMT

HARLAN, Ky. (AP) — Crews have recovered the body of a Kentucky coal miner missing after a roof collapsed deep underground, officials said.

Officials recovered 33-year-old James D. Brown about 9 p.m.

Biscuit World union effort rooted in West Virginia history

By LEAH WILLINGHAMJanuary 24, 2022 GMT

ELKVIEW, W.Va. (AP) — While making biscuits and meatloaf at a fast-food restaurant during the coronavirus pandemic, 64-year-old Cynthia Nicholson often thinks back to her husband’s coal mining days in West Virginia.

Coal miner dies in fall in West Virginia

January 14, 2022 GMT

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A West Virginia coal miner died Friday in a fall in the state's Northern Panhandle, Gov. Jim Justice said.

The death of 44-year-old Jeffrey A. Phillips is at least the third in the U.S.