WASHINGTON, DC, March 29, 2022 (ENS) – Turning coal waste from power plants into fire-resistant, strong, lightweight building materials is a project the U.S. Department of Energy is supporting, ...

In 2022, federal officials rebuked a major coal plant next to the Ohio River for letting coal waste — in a pile so big it could fill the Dallas Cowboys' football stadium twice over — threaten ...

Stronghold, a bitcoin mining company that claims to eliminate 200 tons of waste coal for each bitcoin mined, has raised $105 million. According to a press release sent to Bitcoin Magazine, Stronghold ...

There are a lot of cryptocurrencies out there now, but the biggest is still Bitcoin. By design, it uses a lot of energy. Bitcoin’s energy footprint keeps climbing and is currently greater than Finland ...

Coal ash ponds are contaminating groundwater across the country, but the consequences are unclear because the government doesn't monitor them. At more than 70 sites across the country, toxins like ...

Selling scrap coal has earned Sen. Joe Manchin millions of dollars over three decades, and he has used his political positions to protect the fuel from laws and regulations that threaten his family’s ...

When it began operating in 1921 at the height of Pennsylvania’s coal production, the coal-fired power plant at the mouth of the Conemaugh No. 1 Mine was a symbol of the area’s industrial might. Now, ...

KENNERDELL, Pa. -- In March 2017, Bill Spence got suddenly, catastrophically sick. A part of his pancreas died. His gall bladder failed. When he got to the emergency room, the doctors found kidney ...

Parameters related to the emission factors for the transport of waste coal are shown on the Waste Coal Transport parameter screen. This screen is only shown when waste coal is used as a fuel. There ...

Millions of chickens have died and hog waste has leaked into the floodwaters. Millions of chickens have died and waste from pigs and coal ash has leaked into floodwaters in North Carolina as ...

(AP) — In 2022, federal officials rebuked a major coal plant next to the Ohio River for letting coal waste — in a pile so big it could fill the Dallas Cowboys’ football stadium twice over — threaten ...