A new bipartisan bill would help conservation groups, nonprofits and local governments mitigate pollution from abandoned mines across the West. The Good Samaritan Remediation of Abandoned Hardrock ...

More than half a century after most underground coal mining ended in Northeast Pennsylvania, the pollution just keeps on coming. Once mine operators turned off the pumps that kept the mines dry enough ...

With rolling hills, forests and hiking trails, Southeast Ohio is a haven for lovers of the outdoors. Yet cutting through the landscape are countless orange-stained streams, colored by the iron oxide ...

The raw materials extracted by America’s mine workers over the past two centuries across the West helped build our country. But mines developed before technological advancements and environmental ...

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The Alabama Surface Mining Commission says pollution entering two creeks in Tuscaloosa County is not enough to warrant shutting down a nearby coal mine. “There are definitely situations that call for ...

The million gallons of pollution slowly flowing down the Animas River since Wednesday has radically changed the acidity of the water over the past few days, EPA officials have found. On Saturday, the ...

It’s sunny and in the mid-70s in Tuscaloosa County, Alabama right now. Normally, that would be prime conditions for a swim in Davis Creek or Texas Creek. But right now, both are running black, full of ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X The $1.2 trillion Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act passed by Congress in November is sending ...

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.

IT is a small country village admired for its postcard views, but beneath the dark waters of the river that runs through its ...

After China banned crypto mining last year, large parts of the U.S. received an influx of miners. But they created an unexpected problem across the country, generating an uptick in noise pollution, ...