(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 construction standards ...

The best site for a pond is a spot where the smallest dam possible impounds the largest possible amount of water. Once you identify that site, other considerations come into play, said Scott Jones, ...

(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 construction standards ...