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South Dakota Legislators Plan Bills to Help Residents in Fight Over Limestone Mine

Dec 5 2025 // Three lawmakers who represent Piedmont, South Dakota, hope to change weak state mining laws that allowed a proposed limestone mine to be sited without notification or input by any local officials or residents. The plan by...

Coal Miners With Black Lung Say Government Is Suffocating The ‘Working Man’

Nov 17 2025 // Lisa Emery loves to talk about her “boys.” With each word, the respiratory therapist’s face softens and shines with pride. But keep her talking, and it doesn’t take long for that passion to switch...

Coal Miners’ Respirator Claims Barred by Statute of Limitations, WV Supreme Court Finds

Nov 14 2025 // A group of coal miners with lung disease waited too late to sue 3M Corp. and other respirator manufacturers and suppliers, the Supreme Court of West Virginia said this month in upholding lower courts’ findings that...

West Virginia Coal Miner Found Dead in Flooded Mine

Nov 13 2025 // The body of a coal miner was found inside a mine in southern West Virginia, four days after the stretch of mine was flooded when crews hit an unexpected pocket of water, officials said. It’s the third death this year...

Coal Miners With Black Lung Say Government Cuts Are Suffocating the Working Man

Nov 10 2025 // Lisa Emery loves to talk about her “boys.” With each word, the respiratory therapist’s face softens and shines with pride. But keep her talking, and it doesn’t take long for that passion to switch...

Wyoming to Be Hub for US Rare Earth, Critical Mineral Stockpile

Oct 28 2025 // Ramaco Resources said on Monday it plans to establish what it called the first U.S. stockpile of rare earth elements and critical minerals in Wyoming, in a move to bolster domestic raw material supply for defense and...

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