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President Donald Trump hosted a group of coal miners for a signing ceremony at the White House, where he extolled “clean, beautiful coal.” On Tuesday, the president signed executive orders ...
Trump has long espoused a love of coal. “I call it beautiful, clean coal—I tell my people to never use the word ‘coal’ unless you put ‘beautiful, clean’ before it,” the president ...
Somerset County coal miners began a 16-month strike on April 14, 1922, for better working conditions and union recognition. Miners and their families faced evictions, harsh living conditions and ...
Safety advocates are bemoaning the delay of new measures to protect coal miners. On Tuesday, as coal miners crowded into the Oval Office to watch President Donald Trump sign an executive order ...
Raipur: Union minister of coal and mines, G Kishan Reddy, visited SECL's Gevra mine—the world's second-largest coal mine—on Thursday. Reddy highlighted the coal sector's vital role in powering ...
has provided free health care for all coal miners since 1969. Established by the Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act and run by the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH ...
John Fetterman of Pennsylvania, criticized the Department of Labor on Friday for delaying enforcement of a new federal rule designed to protect coal miners from exposure to respirable crystalline ...
The Trump administration’s feckless business-first, workers-last approach is leaving the nation’s coal miners to die—and now their unions are taking him to court. U.S. President Donald Trump ...
"When I was a child, I'd look up and I'd see coal miners — seemingly larger than life, doubled over coughing, scarcely able to walk, work or breathe," Petsonk says, "I've seen it my whole life.