Climate activists worry about the high-energy demand for bitcoin mining. A once-dormant power plant is humming with activity outside Pittsburgh as thousands of miners work 24 hours a day. The miners ...

The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection has approved the expansion of an underground coal mine in Westmoreland County. Johnstown-based LCT Energy LP operates the 2,800-acre Rustic ...

Nearly 20 years after a mine fire ignited under Centralia, Pa., residents who still lived in the town had a dilemma on their hands: should they take a $25 million federal buyout or try to dig up part ...

For the past 70 years, the King Coal Association has promoted and celebrated the history of mining in Southwestern ...

In 2023, dirty mine water gushed out of the ground behind James Christian's home, flooding his yard in Wyoming County, West Virginia. Sinkholes formed, a strong sulfur-like odor lingered in the air ...

A federal mine report said the nearly 301,500 tons of coal produced by the colliery in 1873 was “the largest shipment of ...

CRESSON, Pa. – As global markets shift and conflicting opinions swirl surrounding the coal industry, a mining project 11 years in the making is working to open in a rural Pennsylvania lumber town.

When WVIA producer Tim Novotney was 16, he and a friend found a tunnel in the basement of an old apartment building the friend had just moved into in Hazleton, Pa. “It was straight-up ...

SCRANTON, Pa. — The history of much of northeastern Pennsylvania is coming to life through artwork. An exhibit at the University of Scranton takes us to the time when coal was king. Jon Meyer got a ...

The Trump administration ordered an aging coal-fired power plant in Colorado to stay open on Tuesday, a day before it was set to retire.