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Pa. Publicly-traded Stronghold Digital Mining purchased the Panther Creek Energy Facility, a defunct coal plant in town, to power its Bitcoin mine. Energy industry veteran Bill Spence says he came ...
A once wealthy bustling Pennsylvania ... town was conducting its yearly controlled-burn of the local landfill before Memorial Day weekend. But the controlled fire in an out-of-commission coal ...
Centralia has become a harrowing and eerie tourist destination for curious roadtrippers making their way through Pennsylvania. This simple coal mining town met its fate in 1962 when a fire ...
CENTRALIA, Pa. - Standing before the wreckage ... in the moonscape of Centralia, a once-proud coal town whose population fled an underground mine fire that began in 1962 and continues to burn.
CENTRALIA, Pa. (WHTM ... and sidewalks… a ghost town. But why is Centralia a ghost town nowadays? In 1962, an abandoned mine pit was used as a garbage dump and later in 1962, the town ...
That Pennsylvania coal provided warmth ... of Unity was recovered Friday afternoon. “These coal-patch towns have loads of mines. Every town has a mine underneath it,” said Crabtree fire ...
One cool, rainy day in May 2022, Rob Manch and Kaylee Lindenmuth decided to search for the coal mine ... Pennsylvania. The reported fire was located about three miles to the east of the near-ghost ...
On 8 April, Trump signed an executive order vowing to revive the coal industry, which is located mainly in Wyoming, West Virginia, Pennsylvania ... federal lands for mining and scrap regulations ...
Some have even been burning for decades, including one notable coal mine fire in 1962 in Centralia, Pennsylvania, which cleared out the town due to the closure of the mine and toxic fumes being ...
Pennsylvania’s largest solar farm has been awarded $90 million and will sit on 2,700 acres of former coal mining land in the vicinity of the shuttered Homer City coal plant. The Mineral Basin ...
During the coal ... Shamokin, Pa., was a thriving community. But when the mines closed and industry moved on, the town was left with only the shadows of the back-breaking work that built it. The ...