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The article focuses on the Battle of Blair Mountain in 1921, the largest armed insurrection in the US since the Civil War, where coal miners fought for their right to unionize and end the oppressive mine guard system. The author shares their personal connection to West Virginia, reflecting on the state's struggles with opioid addiction, the decline of the coal industry, and the impact of the pandemic.

The article reports on whether U.S. Democratic Senator Joe Manchin III's refusal to support President Joe Biden's Build Back Better Act is due to his support to coal mine owners amidst the backing by the miners' union and the West Virginia American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) of the act. Also cited is the comment of United Mine Workers of America's (UMWA) Cecil E. Roberts on the need for Manchin to support the Act.

A personal narrative is presented which explores the author's experiences of how she learned to like musician Loretta Lynn and her hit songs like the "Coal Miner's Daughter."

Editorial. Discusses the problems facing Appalachia's coal miners. Ruling by a federal judge that is not necessary for their troubled employer to honor its contract guarantees; Impact on retirees who suffered from black lung and other occupational diseases; Move by Horizon Natural Resources to sell its unionized mines as it undergoes bankruptcy.

Reports that a federal bankruptcy judge has ruled that coal company Horizon Natural Resources Co. did not have to honor its union contracts, a decision that will eliminate medical coverage for thousands of coal miners, including some sick with black lung disease.

Presents an update on the July 20, 2004, coal mine explosion in the Donetsk region in Ukraine. Death toll from the accident; Number of miners who remain missing; Government's pledge to assist families of lost miners.

The article focuses on the significance of the increasing interest in the 1921 Battle of Blair Mountain over the rights of coal miners in West Virginia in 2021 after years of efforts to stop any public discussion of the historical event.

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The article contends that the U.S. Senate candidacy of Don Blankenship, a former coal mining executive with a criminal record, is a consequence of the political shift in West Virginia driven by hostility to the previous administration of Barack Obama. Topics discussed include the federal court conviction of Blankenship for conspiracy to violate mine safety standards and national Republican leaders' concern over the potential victory of Blankenship in the primary.

The article focuses on the relaxed energy policy adopted by the U.S. President Donald Trump, which promoted coal industry despite its environmental concerns. Topics discussed challenges of coal industry to challenge the competition from clean energy industry such as natural gas and renewable energy, factors affecting the revival of Appalachian coal mines in U.S., and impact on employment in coal mines.

The article talks about the protest that began with labor activists blocking a train full of coal at railroad tracks next to the highway of Cumberland, Great Britain and demanding the end of labor wars in Great Britain.

An editorial is presented on the impact of politics to the Appalachian coal fields in Hazard, Kentucky wherein the partisal politics should work together to do the right thing for the development of the coal miners in the coal fields.

The article reports that Senate Democrats have relented in their flirtation with a government shutdown regarding a dispute on health care benefits for coal miners. It mentions elections focusing to leverage the sorts of issues that propelled politician Donald J. Trump towards victory. It also presents the views of Senator Chuck Schumer, Democrat of New York, on the same.

The article reports on the trust earned by U.S. President-elect Donald Trump from coal miners aiming to boost the condition of the country's coal mining industry. The coal miners who are optimistic about Trump's ability to improve the industry include Bo Copley, Danny Maynard and Larry Gannon. The author finds that the miners are considered about the regulations imposed by President Barack Obama to cut carbon emissions from power plants.

The article discusses the author's claim that many residents in America's coal producing states such as Virginia are skeptical about 2016 Democratic U.S. presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's pledge to help them by investing 30 billion dollars over 10 years to revitalize America's coal mining region (coal country). The U.S. government's plan to retrain coal miners and invest in infrastructure, technology, and other industries are assessed, along with the history of U.S. tobacco farms.

The article reports that rescue workers in India are finding it tough to save workers who have been trapped in an illegal coal mine for fourteen days.

The article discusses the impact of a decline in U.S. coal exports and an increase in U.S. reliance on natural gas on the coal industry in West Virginia and Kentucky. Topics include the cost benefits of natural gas produced by hydraulic fracturing compared to coal, the economic impact of coal mines closing and coal workers being laid off in West Virginia and Kentucky, and the impact of strict regulations to limit greenhouse gases and toxic emissions like mercury on the future of coal.

The article offers the author's insights about the legacy of the coal mining in the British Midlands, the heart of England's coal country. The author talks about his experience of growing up in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire and in a mining family. He also recalls the miners' strike of 1984-1985 in the country.

The article reports on the severity of advanced black lung cases in coal miners in Virginia, an extreme form characterized by dense masses of scar tissue in the lungs caused by breathing in coal mine dust.

The article talks about the movie "Blow-Up" and actor Michael Fassbender and report on coal miners agitation against government regulations and layoffs.

The article discusses promises made by the U.S. president Donald J. Trump to coal miners during his presidential elections, his silence of over lapse of government-funded health benefits for them and views of retiree David VanSickle, on it.

The article reports that the effort of the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump to bring back coal-mining jobs in the U.S. will have little impact to the industry as coal mining companies adapt technological advancement that requires fewer workers.

The article discusses coal miners in the Lower Silesia region of Walbrzych, Poland, who practice rathole mining, or digging coal illegally. Topics include the shuttering of industrial mines in the 1990s, former miner Grzegorz Walowski's research of mining technology, and Mayor Roman Szelemej's plan to bring new business to the city's economic development zone.

The article reports on the argument of coal miners after the death of former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher on how Thatcher rule the coal mining. It mentions that Thatcher who died on April 8, 2013 at the age of 87 has fight to close unprofitable coal mines in 1984 and 1985 and has privatized nationalized industries like coal and steel. It discusses the anger of the residents at Whitwell coal mine village in London, England which closed in 1986.

The article reports ethnic Hazara coal miners were shot down by militants in northern Afghanistan on January 6, 2016, in the district of Tala Wa Barfak in Baghlan Province according to its District Governor and cause and identity of militants are not established.

The article discusses about the rise in cases of black lung the deadly coal-mining disease in a virulent form called Progressive Massive Fibrosis (P.M.F.) according to the reports released by Appalachian health officials.

The article focuses on coal miners in Sago, West Virginia, where 12 men trapped in a mine were found dead. The Sago mine had a crew of mostly aging veterans, which government and union officials say is typical for a mining crew. Interviews with current and former West Virginia coal miners, almost all middle-aged, revealed that the elders are urging the next generation to stay out of the coal mines. With higher coal prices, more mines are opening and more crews are being put into existing mines.

The article reports on the situation in Sago, West Virginia, where 12 coal miners died after being trapped in a coal mine following an unexplained explosion on January 2, 2006. According to the author, many of the miners wrote notes to family members before their deaths. The one survivor of the incident, Randal McCloy, is in a coma and may have suffered brain damage from oxygen deprivation.

The article reports that 12 miners who were trapped in the Sago coal mine in West Virginia were found alive following an explosion. One miner was found dead. Joe Thornton of the West Virginia Department of Military Affairs and Public Safety said the rescued miners were being examined and will be sent to a hospital. INSET: Searching the Sago Mine.

This article reports on an explosion that took place on January 2, 2006 in an underground mine in Upshur County, West Virginia that trapped 13 coal miners behind a wall of rubble more than a mile from the mine shaft opening, stymieing rescue crews that worked frantically to save them. By nightfall, rescue workers had not been able to establish communication with the trapped miners, and it was unclear whether any of them were still alive.

The article focuses on declined coal industries in Great Britain which effects jobs of several coal miners including Chris Jamieson, worker at deep coal mine Kellingley Colliery in Great Britain, and mentions views of Chris Kitchen, President of National Union of Mineworkers, on the same.

Several letters to the editor are presented in response to articles in previous issues including "How Not to Fix the F.D.A.," "Miners Bracing for a Future of Ever-Dwindling Demand for Coal" and "New Jersey Commuter Chaos as Train Tunnels Deteriorate" in the July 20, 18, and 23, 2015 issues.

The article reports on the first anniversary of the explosion and fire at a coal mine in Elmadere, Turkey in May 2014, leaving several miners dead.

The article reports that a coal mine in Ruyi Du Ab in Samangan, Afghanistan has partially collapsed on September 14, 2013, in which at 14 coal miners were injured and at least 20 others were killed.

The article reports on the plan by Russian President Vladimir V. Putin to revise the Hero of Socialist Labor award which originally begun during the Soviet period. It states that the revision was suggested by Igor Kholmanskikh, former tank factory foreman who starts a pro-Putin movement. The article also mentions that the award began in 1938 aiming to acknowledge hard works of coal miners and tractor drivers who contribute to the economic growth of Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR).

The article reports on the investigation of federal prosecutors regarding the Upper Big Branch mine disaster that killed 29 coal miners in West Virginia in 2010. It mentions that former Massey Energy executive David Hughart was accused of criminal conspiracy in tipping off mine supervisors to spot inspections and concealing lethal safety violations. It adds that the explosion was traced to a combination of coal dust and methane buildups that the company should never allowed.

The article reports on the campaign of 2012 U.S. presidential candidate Mitt Romney in Virginia, where coal mining is the major source of living of the people. It is inferred that the state favors Romney over Barack Obama, due to Obama's environmental policies throughout the Appalachian counties where the coal miners live. It explores the presidential rivalry between both candidates, as the final days of the campaign have focused on motivation, intensity, and turnout.

CINERA, Spain -- This village in northern Spain has lived on mining for generations, its gritty labors passed from father to son as long as anyone can remember. But these days, its 1,300 inhabitants are less occupied with scratching coal from the earth than with combating government security forces as part of a struggle over the future of Spain's economy. In recent clashes, the miners blocked roads and railroad lines, used slings to hurl rocks at the police and fired golf balls from homemade bazookas. The police answered with tear gas and rubber bullets. Along the entrance to the village, rocks are still piled up in preparation for renewed battle. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

WHITESBURG, Ky. -- The last good person to see Dradrick Fleming that Wednesday evening was his stepfather, who pointed him to a parking place outside the Neon Church of Christ, where his favorite uncle lay in his coffin. But Mr. Fleming, 34, never showed up at the visitation or, for that matter, at the funeral the next day, his cellphone ringing unanswered, his brand new red Silverado pickup nowhere to be seen. And when they got up to the graveyard, his mother, Cathy Bentley, turned to her younger boy, Aftan, and said, ''Son, you've got to take me home, because I can't find your brother.'' [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A photograph depicting coal miners firing handmade rockets at riot police officers, after blocking a road on June 19, 2012 in Cinera, near Leon is presented.

A photograph depicting coal miners staging a protest against reduction in government subsidies in Montico, northern Spain on May 24, 2012 is presented.

STEUBENVILLE, Ohio -- This is the land of die-hard Democrats -- mill workers, coal miners and union members. They have voted party line for generations, forming a reliable constituency for just about any Democrat who decides to run for office. But when it comes to President Obama, a small part of this constituency balks. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

To the Editor: Re ''Justice for Upper Big Branch'' (editorial, Feb. 28): [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]