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 ...

Geologist with a hard hat, headlight, and torch examining the walls of an abandoned mine shaft - Sava Senemty/Shutterstock Across the US, hundreds of thousands of abandoned mines sit scattered across ...

When the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act was signed into law in 2021, authorizing more than $11 billion in new funding to reclaim lands and waterways damaged by abandoned coal mines, the people ...

A bill aimed at averting another government shutdown this month would divert $500 million for states and tribal governments to repair landscapes damaged by coal mining. Pennsylvania, with a ...

An abandoned mine land reclamation project in Smith Township has received a financial boost. A state grant of $193,493 was awarded to Natural Streams Foundation Inc. to support the initial planning ...

Across the US, hundreds of thousands of abandoned mines sit scattered across the landscape. Many of these are coal mines, relics of an industry that once powered the country. There is, therefore, more ...

A coal seam is visible at an abandoned mine site in Clearfield County, Pa. A bill aimed at averting another government shutdown this month would divert $500 million for states and tribal governments ...

Scientists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory have found a way to convert the nation's 500,000 abandoned coal mines into long-term energy storage using pumped hydro technology. Repurposing the mines ...