The focus of a new Center investigation, longwall mining represents the most brutal technology yet available to rip the coal out from belowground as quickly and as cheaply as possible. The region’s ...

Two mining companies want to dig for coal under nearly half of Montgomery County. They plan to use a nontraditional but highly efficient process called “longwall” mining that will cause flat ...

With 25 miners dead, two hospitalized and four missing, it is the country's deadliest mining accident in 25 years. Like other longwall mines, Upper Big Branch would have been a vast, efficient and ...