Wyoming's Brook Mine that aims to reduce U.S. foreign reliance on critical minerals for defense, technology and clean energy ...

Business In coal country, a new chance to clean up a toxic legacy. Waste from abandoned and bankrupt mines has contaminated more than 12,000 miles of waterways.

The Trump administration on Friday greenlighted the expansion of a scandal-hit underground coal mine in Montana, one of the nation’s largest, cutting short a federal environmental review and ...

One cool, rainy day in May 2022, Rob Manch and Kaylee Lindenmuth decided to search for the coal mine fire themselves. They chose a Sunday, when both were off from their jobs at WFMZ-TV 69 News, a ...

Freedom Mine, owned by a division of NACCO Industries , opens new tab, produces between 11.5 million and 13.5 million tons of lignite coal annually in Mercer County, North Dakota.