Coal mining sometimes requires removing mountain tops with explosives or altering valleys and waterways. Streams can be polluted by runoff from the mines. As the EIA explains, burning coal also ...

That coal ash, the waste from burning coal, was at risk of leaching into groundwater and spreading toxins, officials said. It ...

Crews are battling a two-house fire that started Thursday night in Scranton. According to Lackawanna County Communications ...

That coal ash, the waste from burning coal, was at risk of leaching into groundwater and spreading toxins, officials said. It was part of a broad crackdown by the Biden administration on coal ash ...

In 2022, federal officials rebuked a major coal plant next to the Ohio River for letting coal waste — in a pile so big it could fill the Dallas Cowboys' football stadium twice over — threaten ...