Environmental advocates and community members turned out Wednesday evening for an informal conference on a permit renewal ...

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) – Slurry pond failures like the one that swallowed a bulldozer and its driver last week at a West Virginia coal mine could be avoided if the waste pits were built to strict ...

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) -- West Virginia regulators have made many changes to ensure massive coal slurry ponds don't fail from the bottom and flood underground mines, but federal officials said ...

BOONE COUNTY, W.Va. (WSAZ) -- The DEP says the water in the Peytona area is safe after coal slurry leaked into Crooked Run, a tributary of the Coal River, on Thursday. Two water intakes have been ...

Warrior Met Coal in Tuscaloosa County, one of the leading producers of metallurgical coal in the United States, will pay $250,000 as part of a settlement agreement to fix a coal slurry impoundment and ...

I was born in Southern West Virginia in a small coal camp called Eunice. It’s where my family still lives, and where I and my fiancé live today. About a mile away from my home is the Brushy Fork Coal ...

Virginia Tech scientists have developed a technology that removes water from coal slurry ponds, lowering the amount of toxic waste potentially seeping into the water table and poisoning wells. Mining ...

Two coal slurry spills that blackened a Belmont County stream in 2008 and 2010 will cost the Ohio Valley Coal Co. more than $7 million in a plea agreement. The mining company spent at least $6 million ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Cleanup efforts continued Tuesday night along Fields Creek in eastern Kanawha County following a coal slurry spill at Patriot Coal’s Kanawha Eagle prep plant near Winifrede. In ...