When retired coal miner Phillip Johnson bought a small building several years ago, he had someone he knew with a bulldozer haul it to a secluded hollow in the steep mountains above where he’d grown up ...

A geomorphic reclamation site in the Gas Hills in 2018, left, and in 2023. A team of UW researchers, armed with a three-year, $450,000 National Science Foundation grant, is studying how mine ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Interior Department will extend its abandoned mine land reclamation program through 2034, the department announced Thursday.

A coal company once headed by the governor of West Virginia has failed to fully reclaim a surface mine visible from the highest peak in Kentucky, leaving a large scar in view of a planned tourist ...

Long-abandoned mining sites throughout Colorado, many of which appear today as little more than dangerous holes in the ground, will be cleaned up and made safer with funds from a federal grant. The ...

Companies with three or more years of mining and reclamation experience may apply for a chance to bid on the state’s Abandoned Mine Land projects, the Virginia Department of Energy announced this week ...

Decades after underground coal mining all but ended in Eastern Pennsylvania, residents of certain areas continue today to face a hidden danger: mine subsidence. Gaping holes sometimes open without ...

An in-depth look at the environmental impact of Illinois mining and reclamation efforts. For nearly a century, Illinois was one of the top coal producing states. While mining is greatly diminished ...

In the heart of Appalachia, where coal mining has shaped both the land and the lives of its people, a movement is taking root to restore what was lost. The Appalachian Regional Reforestation ...

LARAMIE – A team of researchers at the University of Wyoming are studying how mine reclamation progresses over time. Kristina Hufford, associate professor in the Department of Ecosystem Science and ...