Across the United States, thousands of abandoned coal mines sit quietly beneath the ground. Old tunnels, empty shafts and ...

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 ...

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 — ...

The huge investment comes after campaigning by locals and could see it become a first of its kind energy source.

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 ...

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

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 ...