President Trump on Wednesday directed the Pentagon to purchase more power from coal plants in a boost to the declining fossil ...

One study conducted by the United States Geologic Survey found that selenium concentrations in the Elk River increased by 581% between 1980 and 2020, a change that researchers said was largely ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Acid mine waste turns rocks orange along Shamokin Creek in Pennsylvania. Jake C/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA Across Appalachia, ...

Across coal country, the same toxic sludge and rust-colored water that once symbolized the end of an industry is starting to ...

President Trump on Wednesday afternoon will hold an event at the White House to tout his administration’s support for coal ...

The president ordered the Pentagon to buy coal power, doling out cash to keep plants online and pushing coal exports "all over the world." ...

(THE CONVERSATION) 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 ...

GLEN DANIEL, W.Va. (AP) — Chuck Nelson spent his life in this corner of Appalachia, working for years in the coal mines — a good job in the economically depressed area. But he says the industry that ...

It’s a question no one was thinking about until last Thursday, when Interior Secretary Doug Burgum posted a cartoon of ...