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Direct action is not as glamorous as many would have you believe. Days, weeks or year in jail or prison is not easy.A But fighting to save precious land and communities is damn motivating.

West Virginia mining officials will release the fourth and final report on the Upper Big Branch mine disaster Feb.

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House Republicans have delayed a mine-safety hearing until the Labor Department issues findings on the government's role in a deadly explosion at a West Virginia coal mine almost two years ago.

An Alpha Natural Resources executive says the Virginia coal company still believes its $7 billion purchase of troubled Massey Energy last year was the right deal to do.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Coal operators should be more cautious about talking to government mine safety investigators to avoid being ensnared in increased criminal prosecutions in the wake of the Upper Big Branch Mine Disaster, according to the lawyer who defended a former Massey Energy security director convicted of lying in the disaster probe.

Deadly methane gas and coal dust levels are two of the targets in a mine safety proposal from West Virginia Gov.

Despite the news that low natural gas prices are hurting coal producers, it's still worth looking into and drawing my own conclusions.

The widows of the 2006 Aracoma Coal disaster are continuing their fight against the way the federal agency in charge of mine safety handled inspections at the Logan County operation in the months before the fire that killed their husbands.

A document's content or context would help determine its release under West Virginia's Freedom of Information Act, under an update to the open government law unanimously passed Wednesday by the House of Delegates.

A bill that would void a 2009 state Supreme Court ruling that exempted personal e-mails from public officials and public employees from public release is on the fast track to passage in the House of Delegates.