Hundreds of abandoned coal mines across the Appalachian region continue to pose environmental and economic risks, prompting ...

Critics have characterized the transfer as a raid on the trust fund established by the 1977 Surface Mine Reclamation Act, the ...

Pennsylvania has the most abandoned mines of any state, McAllister said. Decades of coal mining in Pennsylvania have created a range of environmental and public safety problems, from underground fires ...

Treating acid mine drainage and extracting its valuable rare earth elements offers a way to transform pollution into ...

Stacey Magda of Mountain Watershed Association stands near where the portal to the Rustic Ridge #2 mine would be built near Donegal, Pa. Stacey Magda stands on the side of a country road in ...

Read full article: Multiple witnesses challenge key testimony in 2008 Detroit firefighter death case A messy morning is expected in Metro Detroit as snow moves in early Tuesday, making roadways ...

UNITY TOWNSHIP, Pa. (KDKA) - At least another full day of digging will be needed to find a woman who is believed to have been swallowed by a sinkhole behind a restaurant in Westmoreland County, ...

Anthracite Mining Heritage Month will be marked throughout Northeastern Pennsylvania. A full calendar of regional events is available at and will be updated with ...

The short email employees received by NIOSH employees Tuesday offered a sense of security that had been absent for much of the last year. However, PMRD employees have yet to hear details such as when ...

Three days after a Pennsylvania woman searching for her cat disappeared at the chasm of a three-story deep sinkhole, the digging crews were back at it Thursday, hoping for a miracle but expecting to ...