Deep fear in coal country: DOGE cuts put region's miners and families on edge

Year after year, investigators from the Mount Pleasant office — the most active mine safety center in the nation — launched inquiries into deaths and devastating injuries in some of the largest underground mines in the country.

Now, the facility long entrusted with the protection of miners is among 34 centers in the United States that are expected to be shuttered in one of the most sweeping cuts to the federal agency in years.