Polluted water gushes from boreholes across Pennsylvania to relieve pressure from decades-old coal mines. Bobby Hughes, the leader of a local environmental group, has made it his mission to plug this ...

Pursuant to the “Noncoal Surface Mining Conservation and Reclamation Act” and the “Clean Streams Law” notice is hereby given Pierson Rheems, LLC, 5 Heisey Quarry Road, Elizabethtown, PA 17022, has ...

Coal mining’s roots in the Pittsburgh area run deeper than the foundations of American democracy. Since the mid-1700s, years before the Declaration of Independence, Pennsylvanians have mined 250,000 ...

Lawmakers, including two from Pennsylvania, are asking for a federal investigation into the full extent of environmental damage caused by what are known as “zombie” surface mines, which may ...