Mongolia's parliament, unable to agree on a mining deal, has given the government a freehand to renegotiate terms with Ivanhoe Mines Ltd.

New Delhi, July 17 : The state-run steel manufacturer Steel Authority of India will see its workforce whittled down by around 20,000 by 2012-end, the government said Friday.

A Massey Energy foreman who pleaded guilty to a federal charge of failing to conduct safety drills has been fined $1,000. U.S. District Judge John Copenhaver also placed 43-year-old David R. Runyon on probation for a year at a hearing Thursday.

Gov. Brian Schweitzer said Friday he wants the Obama administration to force General Motors Corp.

Blankenship issued the challenge Friday to Hansen, director of NASAa TMs Goddard Institute for Space Studies at Columbia University.

Authorities arrested 14 people Thursday after anti-mining activists staged a protest that briefly halted production at one of southern West Virginia's largest coal mines.

The nation's recession and increased use of other electricity-generating fuels hit home for 61 coal miners who were laid off at the West Elk Mine in Somerset on Tuesday and Wednesday.

Federal investigators say a lack of policies and procedures for operating underground locomotives contributed to a fatal accident at a Consol Energy operation in West Virginia last October.

After a six-month shutdown, uranium giant Cameco Corporation said Wednesday it has resumed production at its Port Hope, Ont.

The Obama administration's plan to tighten regulation of mountaintop removal coal mines may be at odds with a West Virginia land-use law aimed at creating economic opportunity from reclaimed surface mines.

FutureGen, a carbon capture and sequestration project that was abandoned by the Bush Administration, is getting a second chance to prove its technology.

An employer can't escape paying for services to an injured worker solely because the help he needs is provided by his wife, the Arizona Supreme Court ruled Monday.