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 ...

The Rust Belt town had its heyday generations earlier with anthracite coal mining and steam trains. The show wound up celebrating Scranton and the characters, not poking fun at them, Baumgartner said.

The company behind a proposed development for the UK’s first coal mine in 30 years has withdrawn ... became the first major economy to stop burning coal for power in October, as the last coal ...

The Rust Belt town had its heyday generations earlier with anthracite coal mining and steam trains. The show wound up celebrating Scranton and the characters, not poking fun at them, Baumgartner said.

In the mid-1700s, the earliest area anthracite mines offered secure employment for local residents. Nearly 250 years later, ...

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

The health and safety of coal miners could be in danger if the Trump administration eliminates mine safety employees, ...

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 ...