Michigan has 24,000 known contaminated sites, a legacy of heavy manufacturing where industries carelessly discarded hazardous materials with minimal regulatory oversight. Taxpayers are often left ...

An area of craggy fells, expansive lakes and chocolate box market towns spread over 912 square miles, the Lake District is ... history – including an old coal mine and a medieval priory ...

As President Trump pledges to revive “beautiful” coal, Virginia’s coal counties have largely moved on to new ventures. But ...

In 1924, coal mining in America was at its peak, employing over 860,000 miners. Today, employment numbers are slightly over ...

BILLINGS — Up To 75 employees of Montana's Decker Coal Mine will be laid off from the surface mine near the Wyoming border in mid-January, managers said Friday. A spokesman for mine operator ...

The Supreme Court declined Monday to hear an Apache religious challenge to a copper mine that could turn the tribe's sacred ...

In the coalfields of Appalachian West Virginia, everyone hopes the mine will keep giving up its coal to pay rare six-figure salaries. But their prayers ask that they return safely to the surface.

The fate of a massive coal mine expansion on ... removed a moratorium on coal mining along the Rockies and then bowed to public pressure to reinstate the old rules. The current government has ...

BEIJING (AP) — Water rushed into a coal mine in northwestern China’s Gansu province, leaving three workers dead, official state news agency Xinhua reported Tuesday. There were 133 people ...

A group of Navajo grass-roots activists took their message to the tribal council on Earth Day, asking for accountability on coal and uranium ... and in the Ambrosia Lake mining district near ...

LANSFORD, Pa. (WPVI) -- In this edition of One Tank Trips, we are going underground - and back in time - for an up-close look at a coal mine in Carbon County. The No. 9 Coal Mine operated from ...