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 ...

Pennsylvania is still cleaning up decades’ worth of coal mining pollution. Now it must also contend with millions of tons of fracking waste, some of it radioactive.

CAMBRIA COUNTY, Pa (WJAC) — PennDOT announced Friday afternoon that damage from an abandoned mine has closed one section of a Cambria County roadway. Officials say Route 4027 (Main Street) in the town ...

BRANCH TOWNSHIP — Sen. Dave Argall (R-29) and Rep. Tim Twardzik (R-123) visited the site of an ongoing abandoned mine land reclamation project near Branchdale on Friday. The project, spearheaded by ...

An Indiana County project is getting a half-million-dollar share of $5,222,250 in federal funds being awarded through the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection for the restoration of ...

For James and Laurie LaFontaine, it has been a 30-year journey, working to clean up a creek said to be the source of a majority of the pollution found downstream in the Allegheny River at Pittsburgh.