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Coalfield residents across the country feel ignored as their homes sink and flammable gas rises from underground mining. In ...
Following an Inside Climate News investigation, inspectors from the U.S. Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement inspected the Oak Grove Mine, the home explosion site and the house of a ...
OAK GROVE —Mining for coal under homes can make land sink and settle, exactly what residents of this small community say has ...
As methane’s global warming potential is 21 times greater than that of carbon dioxide, coal miners are faced with ...
A gas explosion dropped hundreds of tons of coal and rock into a coal seam opening ... were immediately pulled from the doomed mine and taken to Nanticoke State Hospital for severe burns to ...
Justice Chinhema, general secretary of the Zimbabwe Diamond and Allied Minerals Workers Union, expressed grave concern over ...
The expansion, which is proposed to include the mining of federally owned coal, comes in the wake ... undermined homes and a fatal home explosion atop the mine. Unlike the operation in nearby ...
Balochistan Liberation Army, a separatist group, claims responsibility for ‘suicide’ attack targeting soldiers.
The state lost about half its mining jobs since 2012 under new environmental regulations and competition from natural gas and renewable ... on abandoned mine land will not solve coal country ...