Old mine car found underground 20 years ago has been restored and now sits at the Archbald Historical Society; it will be ...

Even as administration officials vowed this week to head off scheduled retirements, some aging plants are now breaking, and ...

The last Czech black coal shaft will shut at the end of January, closing the door on more than 250 years of deep mining and ...

The House passed a bill last week that would “repurpose” $500 million meant for cleaning up environmental and safety hazards ...

The demise of the coal industry left much of Appalachia in economic tatters, with lost jobs, spoiled water, and depopulated ...

Along with decades’ worth of coal mining pollution, Pa. must also contend with millions of tons of fracking waste.

Sean Carlton left a 12-year federal career to build a one-acre working farm by hand in West Virginia. He’s the author of "Exit Farming: Starving the Systems That Farm You," a memoir about rejecting ...

Deep inside an abandoned coal mine, explorers crawled through collapsing side tunnels, flooded passages, and low ceilings held up by century-old timber supports. With no ventilation and multiple dead ...

Dec. 19 (UPI) --A coal miner in West Virginia has died, the latest mining fatality in the state following the flooding death of a miner last month. The unidentified miner died Thursday morning in what ...

New research from the University of St Andrews, with Oxford Brookes University and the University of Liverpool, has found that business start-up rates are significantly lower in former mining ...

The Rush Township supervisors approved a conditional use permit this week for a solar project that would repurpose nearly 2,000 acres of abandoned strip coal mining land. Contingent on the approval of ...

Hannah Wiseman is affiliated with the Center for Progressive Reform. Along with a team of other Penn State researchers, she also received a seed grant from the Penn State Institute of Energy and the ...