The West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection responded to part of Wyoming County for a transformer oil spill. According to a press release, the spill ...

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

Treating acid mine drainage and extracting its valuable rare earth elements offers a way to transform pollution into ...

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Environmentalists in West Virginia are speaking out after an appropriations bill passed the U.S. Senate on Friday that strips just under $500 million from the Abandoned Mine Reclamation Fund. Duane ...

Environmentalists in West Virginia are speaking out after an appropriations bill passed the U.S. Senate on Friday that strips ...

Across Appalachia, rust-colored water seeps from abandoned coal mines, staining rocks orange and coating stream beds with ...

Coal mines are notorious sources of acid mine drainage, but the orange sludge that threatens water supplies and wildlife also ...

Historic coal mining communities could lose hundreds of millions of dollars after a U.S. House bill pulls crucial funding for ...

A combination of federal intervention and rising energy demand have stalled coal’s decline, but experts see little hope of a ...