For the past 250 years, people have mined coal industrially in Pennsylvania, U.S.. By 1830, the city of Pittsburgh was using more than 400 tons of the fossil fuel every day. Burning all that coal has ...

Provincial government officials this month imposed more than $3.6 million in administrative penalties against British ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration on Wednesday proposed tighter limits on wastewater pollution from coal-burning power plants that has contaminated streams, lakes and underground aquifers ...

The Trump administration is making $100 million available for existing coal plants to help make them profitable, the Energy Department says. The department said in a press release Friday that it ...

After decades of operation, Merrimack Station’s closure marks the region’s final exit from coal—and the start of a new ...

India has over 500 officially identified abandoned coal mines. Many of these old pits, especially in Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, ...

As the economic engine for the region, coal offered solid work. But it has also used up water, polluted the air and raised ...

State lawmakers are considering a bill that would let two energy companies with coal-fired power plants in northwest Colorado hang on to their water rights even after the plants’ planned closures in ...

The Kentucky Senate on Friday voted 30-to-5 to pass a controversial bill that would benefit the coal industry by making it easier to pollute more water sources without getting in trouble with state ...