Scientists have developed a methodology to convert America's half a million abandoned coal mines into long-term pumped hydro ...

Drilling fluid, often called drilling mud, is typically a slurry of fresh water mixed with bentonite clay and small amounts ...

Doubt has taken root in Lens ahead of the March 15 and 22 municipal elections. A century-old Socialist stronghold, the town with a mining past could fall to the far-right Rassemblement National.

Beneath parts of the Appalachian Mountains, thousands of mine shafts still descend deep into the earth. Some of these vertical passages drop more than 1,000 feet, connecting long corridors carved ...

OVEN FORK, Ky. (WYMT) - Families, survivors and mourners gathered Monday to mark the 50th anniversary of the Scotia Mine disaster, which killed 26 miners in the Oven Fork community of Letcher County ...

Over the past year, GOP leaders and the Trump administration have used a law known as the Congressional Review Act to push for coal mining in Montana, oil drilling in Alaska and copper mining in ...

Frontier cowboys, coal miners, buffalo hunters, prostitutes, saloon keepers and lawmen did dangerous, dirty work in the frontier West. Dynamite, ...

Eight years after her death, Missoula investigators are still searching for answers in the case of 45-year-old Susan "Susie" Wood.

When Wade Haerle stepped into the role of Club 20 executive director, he vowed that the organization would have an active ...

Nearly 50 years after it was discovered that an estimated 4,500 barrels filled with toxic waste were dumped and buried on a 650-acre strip mine in northwestern Washington County, federal environmental ...

The Salt Lake Tribune reports Utah’s rush to build data centers is likely to rely on fossil fuel energy for the foreseeable future.

OpEd: KY can transform abandoned mine sites into assets for data centers, supporting a low-carbon, energy-efficient cooling infrastructure.