(The Center Square) — With coal mines and coal-fueled power plants continuing to move toward closure in Colorado, the state’s Office of Just Transition is launching a program supporting the industry’s ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. WASHINGTON, D.C. (WTWO/WAWV) — Earlier this week, a local coal truck driver was invited to the White House as part of President ...

DATONG, China (AP) — Yang Haiming didn't stop working when he retired from the coal mines at age 60. Instead, he jumped into a new industry. Yang is part of a generation of workers that powered ...

There has been a resurgence of black lung disease, also known as Coal Worker’s Pneumoconiosis (CWP), in recent years among miners in the central Appalachian coalfields. Long considered an affliction ...

The Trump administration on Tuesday temporarily reinstated dozens of fired federal workers who help screen coal miners for black lung, a deadly and incurable disease caused by inhaling toxic coal dust ...

Among workers employed in the mining industry, underground mining machine operators had the highest PMR (164.6). "The continuing occurrence of CWP-associated deaths underscores the potential value of ...

The Colorado Office of Just Transition (OJT) announced it's launching a new program to help entrepreneurs and support workers affected by the coal industry's decline. The Business Startup and ...