UNITY TOWNSHIP, Pa. — The work to fill an abandoned mine after a woman fell in through a sinkhole in December is almost complete. “I just couldn’t believe it. I was in shock,” said Marilyn Wisneski, ...

Democrats on budget committees tell EPA and Interior to halt potential staff cuts during the shutdown. ● White House budget office says $11 billion in Army Corps infrastructure projects will be paused ...

Dozens of people get injured or die in the U.S. every year because they don’t follow this simple advice: Stay out of abandoned and active mines and surrounding lands. Abandoned mines are not history ...

Artisanal coal miner Emmanuel Siyabonga hauls a sack of coal to a client's car at the abandoned Golfview coal mine in Ermelo, South Africa. The work is grueling and hazardous but is one of the few ...

An Indiana County project is getting a half-million-dollar share of $5,222,250 in federal funds being awarded through the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection for the restoration of ...

Illinois is receiving more than $75 million dollars from the federal government to remediate abandoned mine lands across the state this year. The renewed investment, announced earlier this month, is ...

The Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship has begun construction on eight additional abandoned mine land reclamation projects in southeast Iowa, Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig ...

UPDATE: For more updates on Wednesday's search and rescue efforts in Unity Township, Westmoreland County, click here. UNITY ...

From Europe to North America, an energy revolution is breathing new life into empty, long-forgotten coal mine shafts—by repurposing them into places to store renewable energy. Using "gravity batteries ...

When Emmanuel Siyabonga was a boy, he wasn't fussy about the type of job he wanted when he grew up. Other boys dreamed of being footballers, doctors, soldiers. All Siyabonga wanted, he says, was a job ...