But, today, that mining has hollowed out the ground beneath us. Pennsylvania’s inventory of abandoned coal mines is larger than that of any other state in the nation, and the Keystone State has ...

Robert Kennedy's federal funding cuts will eliminate a local mine safety research team that's the only one of its kind.

Greg Beard’s company burned waste coal and tires to power its mining operations and was knocked for environmental violations ...

Accumulating snow is in the forecast for western Pennsylvania. They are asking ... that can also create another problem in a coal mine. It can actually pull methane back into an area where we ...

At 4:07 p.m., May 19, 1928, the whistle blew at Mather Mine, alerting people of an emergency. The explosion that caused it, ...

No Union man's life is safe in Jewsville, Yorktown, Doleraine, Beaver Meadows and other mines of the middle coal fields. Seven or eight murders were committed there within the last few weeks.

The story of this state cannot truly be told, though, without going down – way down. Zach Petroski runs the No. 9 Coal Mine and Museum in Lansford, Pennsylvania, a facility smack dab in the heart of ...

Three days after a Pennsylvania woman searching for her ... drop into a damp, dark hole where coal mining ended seven decades ago. After overnight snowfall left a thin coating on the ground ...

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

Maryland’s largest active underground coal mine changed hands last month after the mine’s previous operator, Canadian firm ...