In 2025, the state  received about $245 million or nearly 34% of the $725 million the U.S. Department of the Interior distributed.

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

Pennsylvania has the most abandoned mines of any state, McAllister said. Decades of coal mining in Pennsylvania have created a range of environmental and public safety problems, from underground fires ...

Reed Johnson at his property in Clearfield County. Abandoned mine waste pollutes the nearby Little Anderson Creek. On a sunny afternoon in late February, Reed Johnson trudges through the slushy snow ...

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

Plans to fix up abandoned mine lands and clean a mine-polluted watershed in two Schuylkill County municipalities are moving forward thanks to a $550,000 federal grant. The money is to be used to ...

Across Appalachia, rust-colored water seeps from abandoned coal mines, staining rocks orange and coating stream beds with ...

From Europe to North America, an energy revolution is breathing new life into empty, long-forgotten coal mine shafts—by repurposing them into places to store renewable energy. Using "gravity batteries ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Catawissa Creek, a visually beautiful waterway that drains into the Susquehanna River in Pennsylvania, suffers from acid mine ...