Two former coal mining sites in Schuylkill County that suffered heavy environmental damage during those operations decades ago and were then abandoned, will now be restored through two state grants ...

Scientists have developed a methodology to convert America's half a million abandoned coal mines into long-term pumped hydro ...

Beneath parts of the Appalachian Mountains, thousands of mine shafts still descend deep into the earth. Some of these vertical passages drop more than 1,000 feet, connecting long corridors carved ...

Hundreds of people have died or were injured at abandoned mine sites. States and tribes want Congress to fund cleanups.

OWENSBORO, Ky. (WEHT) — Coal mining communities in western Kentucky may soon get some much-needed economic relief as a new program aimed at helping counties replace revenue makes its way to western ...

The electricity needed to power new Pennsylvania data centers already in advanced stages of planning could power 11 million homes – nearly twice the total number of households in the state. Companies ...

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 ...

The following projects received a total of $8.1 million in highly competitive state grant funds: Woodlands for Wildlife — ...

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 ...

How efficiently the commonwealth cools data centers has major implications for energy consumption, water demand and community impacts.

Instead of placing data centers on valuable farmland they could be located on reclaimed sites throughout the Appalachian coal ...