At the Panther Creek plant in Carbon County, Pennsylvania, the waste from old coal mines is being used to power a Bitcoin mine. The plant is 2,800 miles away from Silicon Valley.

Decades after underground coal mining all but ended in Eastern Pennsylvania, residents of certain areas continue today to ...

Pennsylvania produced nearly 42.5 million tons of coal from 16 counties in 2021 — third most in the country, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration and the caucus announcement.

Coal mining’s roots in the Pittsburgh area run deeper than the foundations of American democracy. Since the mid-1700s, years before the Declaration of Independence, Pennsylvanians have mined ...

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 ...

LANSFORD, Pa. — Massive hunks of metal at the No. 9 Coal Mine and Museum are blades to gigantic fans, which were crucial in helping keep miners safe in the late 1800s. "Their whole function is ...