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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Five miners died in U.S. coal mines in 2020, an all-time low mark for an industry in a year that saw continuing decline…
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WASHINGTON -- Last year, Indiana University researcher Michael Hendryx published the latest in a series of studies he’s done concluding people living near mountaintop coal mining sites are sicker than those residing elsewhere in Appalachia.
SOMERSET COUNTY, Pa. - Like many people here who have eked out a living underground, Edward Popernack, 84, is used to seeing outsiders paint the coal industry in sharp contrasts: Past or future. Liberal or conservative. Clean or dirty.
"We need to keep it open so we have jobs." Those are the words of a retired miner, explaining why the local mining operation is so important to his community. But he wasn't talking about a coal mine in Appalachia. He was referring to a local asbestos mine - in Russia.
MANKATO, Minn. — Shaking ground in central Minnesota left residents of Mankato asking Tuesday morning if they'd just experienced an earthquake.
Of all the federal agencies created by Congress, one of the true success stories is the Mine Safety and Health Administration, which grew out of a bipartisan effort in 1977.
GARY, W.Va. —  Almost 500 households in rural West Virginia are heading into their fourth day without usable drinking water after severe discoloration and a well's proximity to mine waste storage drew the water's safety into question.
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