Workers may get respite from breathing the toxic dust that remains omnipresent in U.S. mining operations, despite decades of evidence of its deadly consequences. The federal Mine Safety and Health ...

Southeast Community residents have long complained about coal dust pollution from passing trains, and they want the City Council to intervene. Several residents spoke at a City Council meeting to ...

The Newport News government has applied for an almost $20 million federal grant that — if received — could help address the coal dust pollution that plagues the Southeast Community. For decades, ...

At a hearing miners asked regulators to crack down on silica dust which causes lung cancer. They want rules to require more air monitoring and contain specifics about citations and fines. For as long ...

The federal government is working on regulations for U.S. mines which includes reducing exposure to silica dust for all miners — not just coal miners. Black lung is an incurable, deadly disease that's ...

It’s clear that the long-suffering residents of Curtis Bay and CSX Transportation live in two distinctly different worlds. In one, the company’s terminal and piers successfully transport coal by rail, ...

NEWPORT NEWS, Va — Some residents in Newport News say a 19th-century energy source has caused harm to their communities for too long. Uneita Scott says her earliest memories of coal dust started when ...

An international research team studied the solar PV impact of emissions from a coal-fired power plant in the Atacama Desert, finding that after five months of exposure, the deposited dust on ...