What drives Trump’s politics is nostalgia for the age of coal, when dirty fuel and no environmental regulations created his ...

When Xiaojun “Tom” Wang returns to his hometown in Shanxi Province, he finds cracked roads, collapsing hillsides, and a ...

Since 1871, the Durham Miners' Gala has seen the streets of a city in north-east England transformed with displays of mining ...

Tennessee, never under Reconstructive military occupation, first began leasing prisoners in 1866 during Governor William G.

David Waddington has spent years researching the mining industry and coal communities. Now he’s written a history of the pit ...

Sixteen people were killed in a southwest China coal mine accident on Sunday, the official Xinhua news agency said, the latest accident in a country with a poor history of industrial safety.

Indonesia is one of the few countries still building new coal power plants, the most polluting sources of power. Chinese ...

One of the most important chapters in the history of the anthracite coal industry concluded 123 years ago this month. The Great Strike of 1902, a landmark in the annals of labor-management relations, ...

On April 25, 1856, a coal mine in Harrison Township collapsed. Because they were working near the mine's entrance, 16 of the ...

Council funding for the National Coal Mining Museum has been "withheld" until strike action in a row over workers' pay is resolved. Staff at the tourist attraction in Wakefield began a four-week ...

The gas and oil lobby is just the latest beneficiary of EY’s ability to find whatever answer its clients are after.

John Wiltshire, a former coal miner from North Wales, brought a working replica of a Welsh coal mine crafted by his ...