Reasons to be Cheerful explains how "gravity batteries" are giving former mines a second life—while offering an economic and ...

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

The U.S. Interior Department said Wednesday $13 million in grants are being disbursed to reclaim abandoned mine lands in an ...

The federal government wants the number of offices that oversee U.S. mine ... coal producing state with just two MSHA facilities. There also are four offices slated to close in Pennsylvania ...