We bring you part 3 of our exclusive series, "Burning Coal Country." The first two parts were about an active mine fire burning underground in Schuylkill County and the response from the ...

The gaping mouth of Resolution Copper Mining’s No. 10 shaft is 28 feet across and opens into a sheer drop of nearly 7,000 feet, making it the deepest continuous mine shaft in the United States.

Chambers noted that the toxic release data back in the 1990s in Nevada let the public know that gold mines there were generating as much mercury releases as coal-fired power plants. Without this i ...