Treating acid mine drainage and extracting its valuable rare earth elements offers a way to transform pollution into ...

The House passed a bill to repurpose $500 million meant for cleaning up coal country’s environmental and safety hazards.

Heading into President Donald Trump’s second term, coal looked like an industry nearing the end of its life. Utilities ...

Ten thousand armed coal miners held Blair Mountain in late August 1921. They faced machine gun nests, private planes dropping bombs, and a growing force of deputies backed by coal company money. Then ...

When e-commerce billionaire Marc Lore announced his plans in 2021 to build a city called Telosa — a 150,000-acre metropolis ...

The Silent Hill film franchise gets its third instalment when Return to Silent Hill hits cinemas today (23rd January), but ...

Across Appalachia, rust-colored water seeps from abandoned coal mines, staining rocks orange and coating stream beds with metals. These acidic discharges, known as acid mine drainage, are among the ...

Tucked in the deep south, McDowell County, West Virginia, is a place where history runs as deep as the coal legacy and adventure is woven into the mountains themselves. This is Appalachian country at ...

Abandoned oil and gas wells pose environmental and public health risks. For three decades, the state has mismanaged funds earmarked for minimizing the threat.

Return to Silent Hill releases in cinemas today (January 23rd), and fans of the series have only just realised the creepy true story behind the fictional town.

Tucked between the rolling Appalachian Mountains where West Virginia meets Virginia sits Bluefield, a charming mountain town where your retirement dollars stretch further than you ever thought ...