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 ...

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

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 — ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

The sensors operate on an ultra-low-power protocol, enabling deployments to remain in place for as long as 10 years with zero need for maintenance.

In previous articles, we have discussed (i) geothermal energy (heat from within the earth) as another source of renewable energy for heating and cooling of buildings, but whose use has been virtually ...

Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have successfully developed advanced modeling tools that ...