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 ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) -- Federal regulators have cited Consol Energy Inc. for failing to properly maintain part of a coal slurry pond where a man drowned Nov.30, but the violation was not related to ...

The body of the miner who fell into a slurry impoundment in Harrison County was recovered Friday, two weeks after an accident caused the employee’s death, CONSOL officials said. Company officials said ...

125 were killed in the 1972 Buffalo Creek Flood, pictured here, when a coal slurry dam broke. A North Carolina miner's death last week has renewed concerns over the safety of coal slurry ponds. By ...

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 ...

The slurry pond will be built near a field where the National Eisteddfod is held A slurry pond will be built close to a festival site, despite concerns it would be akin to an open sewer. The ...

A state environmental official said this week that a Jim Walter Resources coal slurry impoundment was unusually full when it failed last month. Richard Hulcher, chief of the Alabama Department of ...

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 ...

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) — With a driver and his bulldozer missing in a thick, dark lake of coal slurry, a mine safety expert and critic of the coal industry says regulators are ignoring stricter ...

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — With a driver and his bulldozer missing in a thick, dark lake of coal slurry, a mine safety expert and critic of the coal industry says regulators are ignoring stricter ...