A coal mine was the first to wreck the land ... Taysha DeVaughan joined a small gathering at the foot of a reclaimed strip ...

A man has died following a mining accident that occurred this morning in Harrison County. Sean Donato, the assistant fire chief of the H ...

New homes in Blue Sky, a subdivision built on a former coal strip mine in Hazard, Ky. As the risk of extreme flooding increases with climate change, an effort is underway to relocate hundreds of ...

A Kentucky lawmaker is hoping to limit the definition of “waters of the Commonwealth” protected under anti-pollution laws.

A Boone County coal mine had a long history of safety and environmental violations leading up to a miner death there last ...

Rat-hole mining is banned by the Supreme Court. But its practice persists under the noses of government officials and ...

The Nature Conservancy and the Cumberland Forest Limited Partnership are turning former Appalachian coal mines into clean energy hubs.

Alberta’s modernized coal rules will permit strip mining and other surface mining techniques in the Rockies and foothills. Scientists and conservationists are skeptical of the government’s ...

As Ukraine’s last operational mine producing coking coal — an essential fuel for ... export last year — reduce tax revenues and strip the military of essential materials for armor production.

The Utah Inland Port Authority has added a coal mine to its development plan in Carbon and Emery counties. The Fossil Rock Mine, formerly called the Trail Mountain Mine, closed in 2001.

The decision places numerous watersheds up and down the Rockies at permanent risk of environmental insults, including toxic coal dust, water contamination, strip mining, landscape destruction and ...