For the past 250 years, people have mined coal industrially in Pennsylvania, U.S.. By 1830, the city of Pittsburgh was using more than 400 tons of the fossil fuel every day. Burning all that coal has ...

President Donald Trump’s efforts to help the U.S. coal industry at home are being offset by falling sales abroad. That's ...

West Virginia once had a truly bustling train town in the New River Gorge, but the town has since become a hidden gem of a ...

DES MOINES, Iowa (IOWA CAPITAL DISPATCH) - The Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship announced Thursday it was beginning construction on eight abandoned mine land reconstruction projects ...

A new law in Ohio will fast-track energy projects in places that are hard to argue with: former coal mines and brownfields. But how much the legislation benefits clean energy will depend on the final ...

Abandoned mines across Ohio remain polluted. This site in North Lima, pictured above, is impacted by acid mine drainage. (Jack Pearce, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Flickr) A new law in Ohio will fast-track energy ...

Dawn and Scott Wilson can’t figure out why a state mining engineer decided the cracks in the basement of a home they own in North Belle Vernon were caused by dry soil rather than mine subsidence. They ...

President Trump has been a cheerleader for coal miners. But these miners say his administration is failing to enforce limits on a lethal workplace hazard. Gary Hairston, 71, is a retired coal miner ...

The Trump administration has announced plans to open 13 million acres of federal land for coal mining, as part of President Donald Trump's aim to bolster the shrinking U.S. coal industry. The policy, ...

Trump administration auctions coal leases in Alabama, Utah, Wyoming and Montana Coal production dropped 40% from 2013 to 2023, EIA reports Environmentalists criticize coal leasing amid climate change ...

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