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 ...

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 ...

CLEARFIELD COUNTY, Pa. (WTAJ) — The Clearfield County Coroner was sent to a two-vehicle crash late Friday morning. According to dispatch, a coal truck crashed into a Buick on Hoovertown Road and ...

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.

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 ...

there are “no operating coal mines in Lackawanna or Luzerne counties.” It wasn’t until 1977, said Michael Hewitt, the program director at the nonprofit Eastern PA Coalition for Abandoned ...

PLUM, Pa. (AP) — It is unlikely that natural gas ... The state Department of Environmental Protection said its inspectors studied the coal seam in the area and found no shafts or bore holes ...

During the coal boom of the early 20th century, Shamokin, Pa., was a thriving community. But when the mines closed and industry moved on, the town was left with only the shadows of the back-breaking ...

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 ...