Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. During the 15 years that have passed since our organization first petitioned the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) to ...

Firefly Blue Ghost 1 lunar lander launches tomorrow to go to the moon with a lot of new science gear including the PlanetVac. PlanetVac will collect samples of lunar regolith (soil) from the surface ...

A coal dust examiner who worked for a Kentucky mining company has been sentenced to six months in prison for falsifying dust samples and lying to federal officials. Walter Perkins' employer, Black ...

FLOYD COUNTY, Ky. — A Harlan County, Ky. man will spend time in prison for lying about fake coal dust samples sent to federal regulators. The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of ...

The gravesite in Danny Smith’s vast and verdant yard is shaded by hulking trees. His parents’ graves are adjacent and marked by a massive headstone. In summer, crickets chirp, birds sing, and leaves ...

An Eastern Kentucky coal company that pleaded guilty in connection with cheating on tests designed to protect miners from deadly black lung disease was sentenced to pay a $200,000 fine. U.S. District ...

New data collected by nearby residents after the Moss Landing battery fire and tested by a private lab shows heavy metals in surface dust miles from the scene -- at levels that one toxicologist calls ...

Coal miner Scott Tiller works next to a drill in an underground coal mine roughly 40-inches-high in Welch, West Virginia. May 11, 2016. (Photo by: Scott Tiller, AP Images). This story originally ...

On Tuesday, federal officials posted new rules to protect coal and other miners from toxic silica dust, a growing problem in mines that has left thousands sick and dying. It took mine safety ...

A display case at NIOSH shows a normal lung and a diseased black lung, caused by inhaling coal dust, silica and other harmful particles while coal mining. Howard Berkes NPR During the 15 years that ...