As clean energy rises, West Virginia looks past Trump’s embrace of coal to what comes next By Justin Worland/Charleston, W.Va. Photographs by Peter van Agtmael—Magnum Photos for TIME It was a ...

Recent news of 165 miners laid off at the Leer South Mine in Barbour County was blamed on a softening of the market for metallurgical coal. West Virginia Coal Association President Chris Hamilton ...

EXCLUSIVE: ‘King Coal’ still reigns as one of the most affordable, reliable and transportable sources of energy – and the U.S. still has a lot of it, West Virginia Gov. Patrick Morrisey told ...

West Virginia also played a pivotal role in the Industrial Revolution with the development of bituminous coal, a cheaper alternative to wood. Located in the Appalachian region, West Virginia has ...

Trump, of course, made support for the coal industry a key part of his campaign, and that was undoubtedly a major reason he carried West Virginia by 45 percentage points. But Justice now admits ...

(The Center Square) – West Virginia continues to push other states to protect its coal industry. Attorney General J.B. McCuskey is urging Maryland House and Senate leaders to table a bill that ...

The West Virginia Coal Association celebrated the bill’s advance from the Senate Energy Committee to the Senate Government Organization Committee with a press conference that included red ...