JRL Coal Inc is accused of wrongly firing a miner for raising a safety concern, according to the Lexington Herald-Leader.

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Officials say Blackjewel LLC and Revelation Energy might leave taxpayers with a bill for millions in mine reclamation costs.

Kentucky officials say a recovery operation is underway at a coal mine where an explosion caused a 62-year-old worker to fall.

West Virginia regulators say a coal mine employee has died in a machinery accident.

A West Virginia coal mine that employs about 400 workers is closing after a deal to sell it fell through.

Three years after the Obama administration lowered the allowable limits for miners' exposure to coal dust, the Trump administration has brought the standards up for review.

An employee at a Kentucky coal mine has been sentenced for violating the federal Mine Safety and Health Act.

The mine would sell coal that's used to generate electricity at power plants, a sector of coal that has been in steep decline in Kentucky and parts of Appalachia.

State regulators have shut down operations at a Harlan County coal mine after sediment leaked into a creek.

A former supervisor of a coal mine near Pineville, Kentucky, has pleaded guilty to violating a mandatory safety standard that led to the death of an employee.

Former Patriot Coal workers have begun applying for jobs with Blackhawk Mining.

The U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration is seeking an injunction to stop an eastern Kentucky coal mine operator from interfering with safety inspectors.

Environmental groups say an eastern Kentucky coal company that was caught falsifying water quality reports several years ago is at it again.

Former Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship was indicted by a federal grand jury Thursday on numerous counts of conspiracy, making him the highest-ranking executive charged in the April 2010 underground explosion that killed 29 men at the Upper Big Branch Mine in Montcoal, West Virginia. Here is a timeline of major events in the Upper Big Branch disaster in southern West Virginia, beginning with the explosion:

Don Blankenship joined a small club when he was indicted on federal charges in the 2010 West Virginia mine explosion that killed 29 people.