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$18.5M coal plant investment hailed by Hamilton as “most significant news in 50 years”
WVNews
Chris Hamilton. West Virginia Coal Association President Chris Hamilton called the announcement of $18.5 million to assist in the establishment of ...

Vietnam allows coal miners to raise output to meet power generation demand | Reuters
Reuters
Vietnam will allow domestic coal mining companies to ​raise their output to meet the country's ‌rising demand for power generation, the government ...

Cost of coal plant emergency orders already more than $300 million | IEEFA
IEEFA
At the same time, coal mining has barely benefited: The total amount of coal used by the plants under the emergency orders amounted to less than 1 ...

MSHA to award $10.5M total in funding to support mine safety - WOWK
WOWK
The U.S. Department of Labor released that its Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) will make $10.5 million in grant funding available to ...

West Virginia Miners among 13 killed nationwide as mining fatalities increase in 2026
WV News
A daily tracking report from the Mine Safety and Health Administration shows 13 workplace fatalities have been recorded across the nation's mining ...

MSHA finds Alpha company failures led to November mine death as violations persist
Charleston Gazette
The U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration, or MSHA, has found that a Nicholas County mine operator's safety failures led to an Elkview man's ...

House Appropriations Committee approves bill that would cut safety agency budgets
Safety+Health Magazine
Proposed cuts for MSHA. The bill proposes around $348.2 million for the Mine Safety and Health Administration. That's in line with the White House's ...

Shanxi emergency official probed after deadly mine blast - Chinadaily.com.cn
China Daily
... Mine Safety Administration and the Shanxi provincial government. Zhang, born in June 1968 in Shanxi province, previously worked at Lu'an Chemical ...

Trump coal announcement welcome news for southern West Virginia
New Castle News
BECKLEY, W.Va. — Coal still moves through southern West Virginia as something more than fuel. It moves through family paychecks, shuttered ...

Trump Administration Shovels $75 million into Controversial Oakland Coal Terminal | KQED
KQED
Mark Gordon, from left, West Virginia Gov. Patrick Morrisey, Energy Secretary Chris Wright, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, Environmental ...