The Leer South Mine in Barbour County, West Virginia, which produces high-quality metallurgical coal, was sealed for the ...

East Mountain Road near Sky Drive in Scranton is partially blocked off after a hole opened up near a basin on Sunday evening ...

What started as an April Fools' joke by a marketing agency now benefits the nonprofit Eastern Pennsylvania Coalition for Abandoned Mine Reclamation.

OAK GROVE, Ala.—A coal miner named Jose Antonio M. Lara died early Wednesday morning following a rock collapse inside the Oak Grove mine, a facility in Jefferson County, just southwest of ...

100 years ago, June 25, 1925. An accident which may have resulted more seriously, occurred at the Taylor mine switch Monday afternoon when a B. & O. locomotive pulling a string of loaded coal cars ...

Disused coal mines could be refashioned to place vast fields of solar panels, a new report suggests, providing an unlikely solution to a common obstacle to uptake of the green energy source.

Decades after underground coal mining all but ended in Eastern Pennsylvania, residents of certain areas continue today to ...

Abandoned coal mines are on land that has already been cleared, and tend to be near electrical grids, making them ideal for feeding in renewable energy. "Over 300 surface coal mines recently out of ...