Down in Washington, Pennsylvania, an hour’s drive southwest from Pittsburgh, one message can be found plastered on billboards, newspapers, even diner placemats. It reads: “Coal, Pennsylvania’s #1 Fuel ...
Core Natural Resources has successfully recovered mining equipment from deep underground and repositioned its longwall ...
WAYNESBURG – Consol Energy will temporarily lay off 200 employees at its Bailey Mine as it makes changes in its mining plan to abide by a state Environmental Hearing Board decision prohibiting it from ...
Kim Jones has a hard time explaining the disappearance of the once-gushing stream to her children, Kaitlyn and D.J. Steven Sunshine The brutally efficient coal-extraction method known as “longwall ...
Longwall Mining About 33 percent of all underground coal production in the U.S. comes from longwall mining. A continuous mining machine is used to isolate huge rectangular panels that are extracted by ...
This weekend's testing of two methane monitors from the Upper Big Branch coal mine in West Virginia has not detected any evidence of tampering, NPR has learned. The methane monitors were removed from ...
Legally required water systems at Massey Energy's Upper Big Branch coal mine in West Virginia were not functioning properly before the April 5 explosion that killed 29 mineworkers, according to ...
WITT, Ill. — The nation’s hunt for fuel soon may sweep below the lush fields of corn and soybeans here, and it could dramatically change the prairie landscape. Two mining companies want to dig for ...
WITT, Ill. — The nation’s hunt for fuel soon may sweep below the lush fields of corn and soybeans here, and it could dramatically change the prairie landscape. Two mining companies want to dig for ...