David Hess, secretary of Pennsylvania''s Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), is very happy about new U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulations that encourage more re-mining ...

LCT Energy, based in Johnstown, is operating a mine called Rustic Ridge #1, located in Westmoreland County. Now, it’s ...

HOLLSOPPLE, Pa. (AP) — A mining company employee was crushed to death in an accident involving a shuttle car in a western Pennsylvania mine, authorities said. LCT Energy said in a statement that the ...

A mining company employee was crushed to death in an accident involving a shuttle car in a western Pennsylvania mine, authorities said. LCT Energy said in a statement that the man became trapped ...

A group tours Earth Conservancy’s Truesdale Bank area in Luzerne County, Pa., where the Nanticoke Creek once flowed. Credit: Courtesy of Earth Conservancy In Luzerne County, in northeast Pennsylvania, ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. HOLLSOPPLE, Pa. (AP) — A mining company ...

TAYLORSTOWN, Pennsylvania (Reuters) - A small Pennsylvania town is trying to ban coal mining in a battle being played out across the state as rural communities try to assert control over mining, gas ...

Holly May first heard the roaring noise during a youth hunting event on state game lands in the fall of 2022. “It’s back a ways,” May said of the noise. “It was an area that I previously had liked to ...

Waste coal piles in Russellton, PA, a site where Stronghold Digital Mining acquires coals to use at their Panther Creek power plant. Credit: Stronghold Digital Mining PHILADELPHIA (CN) — A ...

EIGHTY FOUR, Pa. -- A rift between Pennsylvania mining and farm interests over subsidence has been largely out of public view, but the son of a poinsettia farmer is trying to change that. Brandon ...

Questions about the zoning of oil and gas development operations have persisted in Pennsylvania for years. Now, cryptocurrency and data mining operations may create new wrinkles in long-running ...