Two former coal mining sites in Schuylkill County that suffered heavy environmental damage during those operations decades ago and were then abandoned, will now be restored through two state grants ...

An abandoned mine land reclamation project in Smith Township has received a financial boost. A state grant of $193,493 was awarded to Natural Streams Foundation Inc. to support the initial planning ...

Beneath parts of the Appalachian Mountains, thousands of mine shafts still descend deep into the earth. Some of these ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Plans to fix up abandoned mine lands and clean a mine-polluted watershed in two Schuylkill County municipalities are moving ...

A bill aimed at averting another government shutdown this month would divert $500 million for states and tribal governments to repair landscapes damaged by coal mining. Pennsylvania, with a ...

For the past 250 years, people have mined coal industrially in Pennsylvania, U.S.. By 1830, the city of Pittsburgh was using more than 400 tons of the fossil fuel every day. Burning all that coal has ...

On the lookout for crayfish, salamanders and insects of all sorts, a team from the Eastern Pennsylvania Coalition for Abandoned Mine Reclamation (EPCAMR) performs a biological assessment in June as ...

A coal seam is visible at an abandoned mine site in Clearfield County, Pa. A bill aimed at averting another government shutdown this month would divert $500 million for states and tribal governments ...