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Clean energy’s Made-in-America movement could bring jobs for coal miners
Canary Media via Yahoo News· 12 months agoCanary Media thanks KORE Power for its support of our special series on clean energy manufacturing ....
Striking Tuscaloosa County miners offer to return to work at Warrior Met Coal
The Tuscaloosa News via Yahoo News· 1 year agoHundreds of coal miners in Tuscaloosa County could return to work as early as next month after a...
‘It’s unfair:’ Coal miners urge Congress to improve black lung protections and benefits
WSOC via Yahoo News· 1 week agoFor decades, President of United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) Cecil Roberts has been fighting to...
United Mine Workers president says criticism of Joe Manchin from coal groups over his support of the...
INSIDER via Yahoo News· 2 years agoSen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia.AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite UMWA president Cecil Roberts praised...
Coal miners have long faced risk of black lung disease. Now they're getting new protections
Associated Press Finance via Yahoo Finance· 2 months agoCoal miners will be better protected from poisonous silica dust that has contributed to the...
Not your grandfather's black lung: Federal rule seeks to save coal miners from silica dust
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 8 months agoWorkers may get respite from breathing the toxic dust that remains omnipresent in U.S. mining...
Coal miners plead with feds for stronger enforcement during emotional hearing on black lung rule
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 10 months agoLaboring to breathe, West Virginia coal miner Terry Lilly told federal regulators Thursday he is...
New federal rule aims to limit coal miners’ exposure to silica dust, long linked to black lung...
Pennsylvania Capital-Star via Yahoo News· 2 months agoSilica dust exposure has long been linked with black lung cases in miners, and for decades leading...
Warrior Met Coal, union want striking miners to return to work in Brookwood
The Tuscaloosa News via Yahoo News· 1 year agoA nearly two-year work stoppage at a Brookwood coal mine appears close to ending. The United Mine...
Why the Longest Coal Strike in Alabama History Ended With No New Contract
Gizmodo via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThis story was originally published by Grist. You can subscribe to its weekly newsletter here....