State inspectors find site abandoned, raising concerns about pollution from unplugged wells across Appalachia.

Scranton firefighters spent part of Tuesday at the Lackawanna Coal Mine Tour in McDade Park training to extricate mine ...

A short documentary focusing on the public health and environmental impacts of MidAmerican Energy's five Iowa coal plants premieres Wednesday at Varsity Cinema.

Hopes that Donald Trump's executive orders will revive the coal industry have been tempered by the administration's cuts to mine safety programs.

Even as President Trump vows to reinvigorate America's coal industry, critics say his administration has stripped away key ...

The state Department of Transportation has announced plans to demolish a 67-year-old unused bridge over Interstate 81 in North Scranton. A remnant from the waning days of coal mining in the area, the ...

President Donald Trump's administration has proposed several changes that would affect the struggling U.S. coal industry.

Coal-fired power plants, long an increasingly money-losing proposition in the U.S., are becoming more valuable now that the ...

Across the Appalachian mountains in West Virginia and Kentucky, the most popular type of coal mining literally involves blowing the tops of mountains off, covering streams in rock and dirt ...

Rourkela: A nine-member enforcement team of the mines department began investigating into illegal coal mining operations in Sundargarh district on Friday, inspecting 18 coal pits across various ...

Burning coal releases large amounts of energy — more than wood — which is how it came, quite literally, to fuel industrialization in the middle of the 19th century. Mining this combustible ...