The story of Shamokin Creek is unfinished business, according to retired civil engineer Dr. Steve Chrismer. On Wednesday and Thursday, the Shamokin Creek Restoration Alliance (SCRA) hosted the ...

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.

"Burning Coal Country." The first two parts were about an active mine fire burning underground in Schuylkill County and the response from the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection.

When the federal government tried to fire a team protecting coal miners from Wyoming to West Virginia from black lung disease, a miner filed a ...

“We’re ending Joe Biden’s war on beautiful clean coal ... Mine, which Core has owned since its formation in January with the merger of Arch Resources and CONSOL Energy. The Office of the ...

“It will be to your advantage to study the Anthracite Coal Mine Act ... government control active and abandoned mines — a right called primacy. “In PA, we have primacy,” Hewitt said.

Since the late 1800s, coal has been central to the economy and culture of Carbon and Emery counties. Most locals, if they’re not active ... fire boss, a job that involves inspecting areas of a ...

FAIRCHANCE, Pa ... s Bureau of Abandoned Mine Reclamation to the site on January 7. DEP’s initial investigation revealed a previously unknown abandoned coal mine fire.

Three days after a Pennsylvania woman searching for her ... drop into a damp, dark hole where coal mining ended seven decades ago. After overnight snowfall left a thin coating on the ground ...

UNITY TOWNSHIP, Pa ... firefighters, mining experts, and search and rescue teams have spent nearly two full days digging, shoring up and searching an abandoned coal mine behind Monday's Restaurant ...

UNITY TOWNSHIP, Pa. — The team looking for a missing Pennsylvania grandmother believed to have fallen into a sinkhole has determined that an abandoned coal mine is too unstable for people to ...

Twenty years ago the garden was a brownfield and 70 years ago it was an active coal ... Western Pennsylvania isn’t the only region tending a hangover from its coal-mining past.