Pennsylvania’s inventory of abandoned coal mines is larger than that of any ... according to the Department of Environmental Protection. Clearfield County has 629 sites; Greene County, which ...

A ground-mounted solar panel at Millersville University. The Department of Energy is awarding $90 million to a company that has promised to build what would be the largest solar project in the ...

BETHLEHEM, Pa. – Democrats in the two-county Lehigh Valley area of Pennsylvania said they are confident in their ground game ahead of what could be another narrow election result in the ...

MOUNT CARMEL, NORTHUMBERLAND COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — The US coal industry has been declining for decades, but that may change after a series of executive orders signed by President Trump.

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.

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 ...

SOMERSET COUNTY, Pa (WJAC ... Coal Company submitted a layoff notice to the state that impacts more than 300 employees. Just eight years ago, there was such excitement for the mines' opening ...

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) will investigate the environmental impact of idled “zombie” coal ... Pa.) and seven House Democrats wrote to the GAO to ask for a probe into such ...

Thirty-five years ago, state records show, about 1,500 miners dug some 9 million tons of coal a year from surface and deep mines in Nicholas ... The DOE award in Clearfield County, Pennsylvania ...

Some local officials are trying to bring tourism dollars to their towns, in part to make up for the loss of the once-strong coal industry ... through abandoned mines. The ground around the ...