MORGANTOWN, W.Va. -- Eighteen months ago, Christina Doyle packed up her two kids for an eight-hour journey to a West Virginia courthouse, hoping for some resolution to a lawsuit over water pollution ...

This Dec. 3, 2012 photo provided by the W.Va. Department of Environmental Protection shows the embankment after a collapse at the Consol's Robinson Run operation in Harrison County, W. Va. Crews ...

During the days preceding Feb. 26, 1972, rain fell continuously in Logan County, W. Va. The 5,000 people living in the county's 16 mining communities had no idea that the coal slurry impoundment dam ...

BOONE COUNTY, W.Va. (WSAZ) -- The DEP says the water in the Peytona area is safe after coal slurry leaked into Crooked Run, a tributary of the Coal River, on Thursday. Two water intakes have been ...

Virginia Tech scientists have developed a technology that removes water from coal slurry ponds, lowering the amount of toxic waste potentially seeping into the water table and poisoning wells. Mining ...

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) -- West Virginia regulators have made many changes to ensure massive coal slurry ponds don't fail from the bottom and flood underground mines, but federal officials said ...

A coal-slurry spill into a river in Indonesian Borneo has killed hundreds of fish and forced authorities to shut off water lines to households. The slurry came from a waste facility run by coal miner ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. The US Environmental Protection Agency called it the worst environmental disaster ...

Energy Transportation's Systems, Inc. (ETSI) was formed in 1973, to carry millions of tons of crushed coal from Wyoming's Powder River Basin to coal powered electric plants in Oklahoma, Arkansas and ...

Well, that’s one way to make a point about the need to regulate coal waste: CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WSAZ) — A West Virginia State Senator made a unique statement Thursday by drinking a bottle of what he ...

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) – Slurry pond failures like the one that swallowed a bulldozer and its driver last week at a West Virginia coal mine could be avoided if the waste pits were built to strict ...

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) — Slurry pond failures like the one that swallowed a bulldozer and its driver last week at a West Virginia coal mine could be avoided if the waste pits were built to strict ...