As American energy companies decrease their coal production, many wonder what comes next for the communities left behind.

Some of the reasons why the world has not been able to quit coal are obvious, and some are less so. Coal is cheap and abundant — particularly in developing economies such as China, India and Indonesia ...

Flood water from a disused mine is being used as a renewable source of heating for the first time in Wales. The business near Ammanford, Carmarthenshire, has started pumping water from a nearby mine ...

Old coal mines on the eastern slopes of the Alberta Rockies are leaching chemicals that are poisoning the fish downstream, ...

More than 100 people gathered in Forest Lake to talk about the prospect of more coal mining and almost all opposed the idea.

Ukraine is trying to recover a coal deposit essential to the steel industry in the disputed Pokrovsk region, under daily ...

Steep paths zigzag through the pine and silver birch trees that smother the slopes of a vast slag heap looming over Murcki, a ...

The administration is leaning into fossil fuel solutions for growing power demand, with support from grid operators.

The Environmental Protection Agency is proposing to scrap two major federal regulations that limit air pollution and ...

Union Pacific tried to shut down future claims tied to century-old mining - but the Seventh Circuit says not so fast ...

Preserved there in the sounds of the auto harp, upright bass and guitar and the high notes of old time gospel singing ... his side in a low mine shaft, digging anthracite coal with a pick ax.