West Virginia coal operators built small, company-owned towns for their miners to live in. The coal towns were almost always unincorporated; there were no elected officials, no independent police ...

Federal regulators have threatened to take over enforcement authority from West Virginia for another coal mine permit in ...

I was recently driving in the southern West Virginia coalfields ... and while the C&O did load coal at mines a few ridges away, it certainly did not operate trailer train service on branch ...

State regulators pulled a permit for a surface mine tied to West Virginia Republican Sen. Jim Justice's family, citing a ...

As clean energy rises, West Virginia looks past Trump’s embrace of coal to what comes next By Justin Worland/Charleston, W.Va. Photographs by Peter van Agtmael—Magnum Photos for TIME It was a ...

However, coal companies in southern West Virginia, seeking to fulfill their ... Wives and daughters would tear up train track, curse at the new recruits, and generally prevent them from entering ...

In 1978, Carter came back to West Virginia and announced the creation of the President’s Commission on the Coal industry. “West Virginia alone could supply all the needs for our entire country ...

Bluestone Coal Corporation’s Poca surface mine’s mining permit was suspended by the West Virginia Department of Environmental ...