Canada's village of Cumberland has began using abandoned coal mines to supply clean geothermal heating and cooling for homes ...

West Virginia's governor says the search for a trapped worker inside a flooded coal mine remains a rescue operation Crews desperately continued removing massive amounts of water in an effort to locate ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — The body of a coal miner was found early Thursday in a mine that flooded in southern West Virginia, Gov. Patrick Morrisey said. Machines had been pumping water out of Alpha ...

For the past 250 years, people have mined coal industrially in Pennsylvania, U.S.. By 1830, the city of Pittsburgh was using more than 400 tons of the fossil fuel every day. Burning all that coal has ...

Despite the Trump administration’s efforts to “reinvigorate” American coal, the industry isn’t gaining much steam. The Department of Interior offered up thousands of acres for coal mining on public ...

A West Virginia coal miner was found dead inside a flooded mine on Thursday morning after a desperate five-day search, officials said. Steven Lipscomb, a 42-year-old Elkview native, died in Rolling ...

Built in 1902, the Brooks Mine was closed for nearly 40 years, just reopening in 2023. This year, the mine is opening its metal gates for a haunted experience unlike any other in the area, with all ...

(NICHOLAS COUNTY, W. Va.) -- A missing miner trapped in a flooded West Virginia coal mine for nearly a week has been found dead, according to West Virginia Governor Patrick Morrisey. "At approximately ...

The Gianforte administration wants the U.S. Department of Interior to open up millions of acres of coal land in eastern Montana's Powder River Basin for future leasing and doesn't believe the two ...

Abandoned coal mines could be significant sources of greenhouse gases, releasing carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. Recent ...

A small village in British Columbia plans to heat and cool its buildings using water from abandoned coal shafts beneath the ...