The Iowa Department of Agriculture embarked this month on the reclamation of 162 acres of abandoned mine land the Pella Wildlife Area, the largest of about 120 that have taken place in Iowa since ...

Six people have been killed by a gas explosion in an abandoned coal mine in South Africa, the national broadcaster is reporting. About 20 others are still trapped at the Gloria coal mine in ...

But, today, that mining has hollowed out the ground beneath us. Pennsylvania’s inventory of abandoned coal mines is larger than that of any other state in the nation, and the Keystone State has ...

Darin LaHood this week reintroduced legislation that would make it easier for states, the private sector and nonprofit groups to collaboratively clean up abandoned, polluting coal mines plaguing ...