West Virginia Governor Patrick Morrisey has released a statement saying a West Virginia man died in a coal mining accident in Boone County.

A West Virginia coal miner has died after a mining accident in Boone County. According to West Virginia Governor Patrick ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A 55-year-old coal miner died in a Wednesday morning accident in Boone County.

A Logan County coal miner died in an accident at a mine in Boone County, Gov. Patrick Morrisey said in a statement Wednesday. Steven Fields, 55, of Chauncey, died from injuries he sustained in an ...

In 1971, Jim Sr. formed Bluestone in the coal fields of West Virginia’s McDowell County. For two decades Bluestone produced 500,000 tons per year of what’s known as metallurgical or coking ...

Along with sedimentation, coal hauling could degrade the Upper Gauley watershed with coal dust from loaded coal trucks. “The West Virginia Highlands Conservancy has a 55-year history ... are ...

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 ...

From 1897 until the mid-1910s, Mother Jones returned time and again to unionize laborers in the mines located in what is now New River Gorge National Park and Preserve and other coal fields of West ...

West Virginia also played a pivotal role in the Industrial Revolution with the development of bituminous coal, a cheaper alternative to wood. Located in the Appalachian region, West Virginia has ...

West Virginia is the second largest coal-producing state in the U.S. after Wyoming. One plus: the state's corporate net income tax rate dropped from 9% to 6.5% between 2007 and 2014.