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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

WILKES-BARRE — U.S. Senators Bob Casey, D-Scranton, and Mike Braun, R-Indiana, this week introduced the Safeguarding Treatment for the Restoration of Ecosystems from Abandoned Mines (STREAM) Act with ...

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 ...

Fracking’s Forever Problem: Eighth in a series about the gas industry’s radioactive waste. BELLE VERNON, Pa.—Off a back road in the hilly country south of Pittsburgh, a tributary to the Monongahela ...

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 ...