The administration’s efforts to bring manufacturing plants to coal towns are beginning to take root. Climate hawks have long fretted over the economic hole left by the coal industry’s collapse.

Indian miners: Navy divers deployed in rescue bid India rescuers step up efforts to save trapped coal miners Flooding blocked their exit from the rat-hole mine - named for the narrow crevices ...

Rat-hole mining, once widely used for coal extraction, was banned in India in 2014. More from News A team of "rat miners" successfully rescued the 41 men who had been stranded in a highway tunnel ...