Hundreds of abandoned coal mines across the Appalachian region continue to pose environmental and economic risks, prompting ...

Treating acid mine drainage and extracting its valuable rare earth elements offers a way to transform pollution into ...

Coal mines are notorious sources of acid mine drainage, but the orange sludge that threatens water supplies and wildlife also ...

The House passed a bill to repurpose $500 million meant for cleaning up coal country’s environmental and safety hazards.

Kenny Pollard, 75, holds a photo in his home from a vacation that he and his wife, Elizabeth, took to Clearwater Beach, Fla., approximately 10 years ago. Law enforcement members watch as rescue ...

Centralia, Pennsylvania, once a thriving coal town, was slowly erased by an underground fire ignited in 1962. Decades of ...

At its peak, the Homer City power plant employed hundreds of people and could deploy enough to power 2 million homes. As the ...

The demise of coal mining in the Lackawanna valley 65 years ago also stopped the pumping of water out of the deep, underground mines. With pumps turned off, water soon filled the labyrinth of tunnels ...

The short email employees received by NIOSH employees Tuesday offered a sense of security that had been absent for much of the last year. However, PMRD employees have yet to hear details such as when ...