This story originally appeared on StateImpact Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania is getting less money from the federal government this year to clean up its old abandoned mines. The state is getting $32 ...

Drainage from abandoned coal mines can carry massive loads of carbon dioxide, venting to the air decades or even centuries after mining stops.

WILKES-BARRE -- For more than a century, the anthracite mines of Pennsylvania fed the furnaces of a nation. It boiled the steam in the locomotives that transported tons of coal to Harrisburg and ...

Boy Scout Troop #478 members salute during a flag raising ceremony at the Quecreek Mine historical marker in Somerset, Pa. The site marks the area where coal miners were pulled to safety after being ...

No matter how hot it is this summer, you’ll need a light jacket for this next destination. It’s about 50 degrees in the Lackawanna Coal Mine all year long. “You’ll be loaded into the car, and then you ...