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 ...

The U.S. Department of the Interior’s Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement recently awarded Pennsylvania ...

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, ...

Residents opposed to the Rustic Ridge #1 mine expansion attend a town hall on the mine held by Mountain Watershed Association May 15, 2025. Jim Miller stands in front of the log home he and his wife ...

Plans to fix up abandoned mine lands and clean a mine-polluted watershed in two Schuylkill County municipalities are moving forward thanks to a $550,000 federal grant. The money is to be used to ...

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