The federal government has authorized a nearly 1,900-acre expansion of the mine that supplies Montana’s largest power plant with coal. The Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement ...

The number of people working the nation’s coal mines has steadily declined from 89,000 or so in 2012 to about 41,300 today. Production fell 31% during Trump’s first term, and has continued ...

Nationwide, one in 10 working miners is now estimated to have black lung. In the heart of the central Appalachian coal fields, it’s one in five.

Abandoned coal mines had left waterways acidic and rusty orange. Local residents are cleaning them up, and recovering valuable minerals in the process. By Mira Rojanasakul Mira Rojanasakul ...