The investigation continues today in to the death of two miners in a southern West Virginia coal mine. Brooks Run Mining Company says a preliminary investigation shows a roof fall at its Cucumber Mine on Saturday was localized to the area where the two men were working. Killed in the accident were 48-year-old James D. [...]

More than five years ago, West Virginia regulators were urged to consider banning a practice in which coal miners pull coal from the pillars meant to hold up underground mine roofs.
This weekend, two more West Virginia miners died “pulling pillars,” in the first deaths for the state’s coal industry this year.
In a November 2001 report, [...]

China produces more coal than anywhere else in the world, fuelling the country’s economic boom. But it comes at a terrible price: the mines are the world’s deadliest, and their environmental impact is catastrophic. Safer - and cleaner - technology exists. But is there the political will to make it happen?
The trucks rattling away [...]