Environmentalists, Miners Square Off In Western Pa. Coal Country. August 1, 2017 / 10:19 PM EDT / CBS Pittsburgh ... Destruction the state blamed on the long wall mining operations of Consol Energy.

For coal miners in Western Pennsylvania, the commute to work takes them two miles into the earth and 300 feet beneath it. As dark and dusty as they find it making a buck, ...

“Coal is not coming back. Coal in the U.S. will never come back,” said Art Sullivan, a mining consultant in western Pennsylvania. He’s worked in coal for 52 years, starting as a miner. He’s says ...

Coal in the U.S. will never come back," said Art Sullivan, a mining consultant in western Pennsylvania. He's worked in coal for 52 years, starting as a miner. He's says people in the country's ...

Coal mining’s roots in the Pittsburgh area run deeper than the foundations of American democracy. Since the mid-1700s, years before the Declaration of Independence, Pennsylvanians have mined ...

A mine safety expert says many old mines in Western Pennsylvania have less than 50 feet of ground cover between the mine and the surface, ... Submit a request for a coal status report form.

Mining was always a close second with agriculture because western Pennsylvania was bituminous industry and northeastern Pennsylvania's anthracite industry." "The two big monikers that our mine shares ...

Pennsylvania is getting unprecedented amounts of federal money to clean up old coal mines. Last year, the state got more than $244 million through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, and up to a ...

PROSPERITY, Pa. — Authorities say a coal mine worker was killed when a long wall of coal collapsed on top of him at a mine in western Pennsylvania. The wall collapsed around 6 p.m. Thursday in ...

My family is from western PA and West Virginia, where they worked in the coal fields of those areas. ... 1946 of coal miners near Red Lion, PA in a shaft cage before descending into the Earth.

At Old Coal Mines, the American Chestnut Tries for a Comeback. Across Appalachia, scientists and foresters are trying to reintroduce a hybrid version, ... West Virginia and western Pennsylvania. ...

Miners marched to Lattimer, Pennsylvania, on September 10, 1897, to protest harsh working conditions. Wikicommons. At the western entrance of the coal patch town of Lattimer, in Luzerne County ...