The U.S. Department of Energy is ordering an oil and gas power plant to keep its turbines running through the hottest summer ...

Pullman, Centralia, and Elcor are among towns whose fortunes rose and fell with one company. Some bounce back; others went ...

Eternal flames are flames that continuously burn for an extended period of time, often indefinitely. This natural phenomenon doesn’t occur often, but there happens to be one ...

The fate of a massive coal mine expansion on the doorsteps of Jasper National Park is now in the hands of Alberta’s energy regulator. The company submitted a formal application in April.

Nearby, mining counties across Virginia’s slice of Appalachia were reeling after decades of job loss. Mr. Stacy and his friend Jim McGlothlin, both former coal magnates, seized on what they ...

In 1924, coal mining in America was at its peak, employing over 860,000 miners. Today, employment numbers are slightly over 40,000. Want more proof that the industry is on the decline? Just take a ...

The lead proponent is Northback Holdings Corp., which owns a huge swath of land that was, until the 1960s, teeming with coal mines above and under the ground. It is one of the many companies owned ...

The project, located on an inactive legacy coal mine site in the Municipal District of Ranchland, was revived two years later. Last year, it was exempted from the Alberta government's decision to ...

China has deployed a fleet of autonomous electric mining trucks at the Yimin open-pit coal mine in Inner Mongolia. The operation, led by state-backed energy giant Huaneng Group, includes 100 ...

A cryptocurrency mining company has reached an agreement with the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection to expedite the cleanup of unpermitted coal ash, a byproduct of the waste coal ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has reinstated nearly 200 workers who screen coal miners for black lung, an incurable progressive disease caused by long-term exposure to coal dust ...

Nippon Steel currently consumes approximately 25Mt of coal annually, and has investments in coal mines with a total annual production capacity of 69Mt. Its recent acquisition of a 20% interest in the ...