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An agreement was signed last month that could turn a section of the former Beulah Mine into a nickel processing plant. If the ...
The U.S. Department of Energy has ordered another power plant to keep its turbines running through the hottest summer months.
LANSFORD, Pa. (WPVI) -- In this edition of One Tank Trips, we are going underground - and back in time - for an up-close look at a coal mine in Carbon County. The No. 9 Coal Mine operated from ...
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 ...
Mine inspectors in Pennsylvania have about 98 underground and surface bituminous coal mines to inspect and 60 anthracite mines, according to the state Department of Environmental Protection.
there are “no operating coal mines in Lackawanna or Luzerne counties.” It wasn’t until 1977, said Michael Hewitt, the program director at the nonprofit Eastern PA Coalition for Abandoned ...
SOMERSET COUNTY, Pa (WJAC) — Hundreds of coal mine workers in Somerset County could soon be out of work. The Corsa Coal Company submitted a layoff notice to the state that impacts more than 300 ...
Stay informed about the West. High Country News’ weekly email newsletters keep you up-to-date with our latest news and investigations from across the region. In September, a coal mine reopened ...
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 ...
The story of this state cannot truly be told, though, without going down – way down. Zach Petroski runs the No. 9 Coal Mine and Museum in Lansford, Pennsylvania, a facility smack dab in the heart of ...
The Rogue’s Wind project, according to CPV, “will repurpose a former coal mine into a new source of renewable energy for the (Pennsylvania) Commonwealth’s electricity consumers. CPV Rogue ...
INDIANA COUNTY, Pa. — Biden administration officials came ... about this spot about an hour east of Pittsburgh, where coal mines began closing in the 1980s and the state’s largest coal-fired ...