Mining is an important part of American history, but not one that many people get to explore in person. This spot in Kentucky ...

In 2016, Trump seized on the issue, promising to end what he described as Democratic President Barack Obama’s “war on coal” ...

The San Juan Skyway links four mountain ranges and five historic mining towns in one 233-mile loop. Between Durango and ...

From Europe to North America, an energy revolution is breathing new life into empty, long-forgotten coal mine shafts ... toward renewable storage in abandoned mines is supported by research ...

(AP) — The winner of this year's West Virginia Coal Festival teen beauty pageant ... as she traipses through the ruins of the abandoned Kay Moor mine. She talks enthusiastically about the ...

Ava Johnson knows West Virginia coal will not ever be what it once was. But as she makes her way along overgrown railroad tracks near the abandoned Kay Moor mine in the New River Gorge National ...