The US Department of Energy on Friday announced that it would make $100-million available to refurbish and modernize existing coal-fired power plants. The move is part of the Trump administration's ...

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 ...

The U.S. Department of Energy on Friday announced that it would make $100 million available to refurbish and modernize existing coal-fired power plants.

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

South Africa’s critical minerals strategy is not embedded in a modernised mining policy aligned with an industrial policy.

When Matt Cooper found out in 2020 that the northwest Colorado coal mine where he works would close by the end of the decade, ...

The researchers identify critical limitations that restrict the full realization of AI’s potential in mine safety. A major ...

After mining industry trade groups sued to overturn the rule, federal judges twice paused its enforcement before the ...

Retiring UMWA President Cecil Roberts talks about where the coalfields have been and where they could be going.

The recent collapse of First Brands & Tricolor, together with loan losses among some US regional banks, has begun to stir ...

Hidden in the northeastern corner of New Mexico lies a natural sanctuary so peaceful and pristine, it feels like stepping into a painting. Sugarite Canyon State Park near Raton is the kind of place ...

Mountain State Spotlight talked with retiring UMWA President Cecil Roberts about a life leading the nation’s coal miners ...