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A company that wants to build an underground coal mine in Allegheny County faces one big roadblock: the town where the mine would be built.
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Thom Maziekas' house in Mahanoy City faces a row of empty lots. Rowhomes once stood there, but they suffered the fate of many buildings in this…
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Westmoreland Coal Company, one of the oldest mining companies in the country, became the second major coal bankruptcy of the Trump presidency Tuesday when…
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Retired coal miners and coal community activists are on Capitol Hill this week urging action on two important issues for miners: pensions and black lung…
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In 1907, 240 coal miners went to work at the Darr Mine in Van Meter, and only one came home. Nearly one century later, nine miners went to work in the…
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In the heart of America's diminished steel country, support for President Donald Trump's tariffs on imports is broad and bipartisan. It is tempered,…
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Austin Turner was headed back home to West Virginia on a recent afternoon from his job at the 4 West Mine in Mt. Morris, Pennsylvania. It was going to be…
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A proposed coal mine is moving forward in southwestern Pennsylvania after its operator reached a settlement with an environmental group.The Mountain…
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While the United States burned less coal in 2017 than it had in three decades, an uptick in global demand for Appalachia’s metallurgical coal -- used in…
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Coal companies in the United States boosted production of the fuel in 2017 to reverse a two-year decline.The U.S. Energy Information Administration said…