On a recent afternoon, near the headwaters of Deckers Creek, in West Virginia, Paul Ziemkiewicz, the biological scientist who directs the Water Research Institute at West Virginia University, squatted ...

In 2022, federal officials rebuked a major coal plant next to the Ohio River for letting coal waste — in a pile so big it could fill the Dallas Cowboys' football stadium twice over — threaten ...

WASHINGTON, DC, March 29, 2022 (ENS) – Turning coal waste from power plants into fire-resistant, strong, lightweight building materials is a project the U.S. Department of Energy is supporting, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Apr. 13—MINERAL POINT, Pa. — The removal of a mammoth mound of waste coal left behind by Bethlehem Mines Corp. in the Mineral ...

There are a lot of cryptocurrencies out there now, but the biggest is still Bitcoin. By design, it uses a lot of energy. Bitcoin’s energy footprint keeps climbing and is currently greater than Finland ...

FILE PHOTO: A man-made mountain of waste coal towers over Shamokin, Northumberland County. State lawmakers are looking into the effects cryptocurrency has on the climate. Cryptocurrency like Bitcoin ...

Selling scrap coal has earned Sen. Joe Manchin millions of dollars over three decades, and he has used his political positions to protect the fuel from laws and regulations that threaten his family’s ...

When it began operating in 1921 at the height of Pennsylvania’s coal production, the coal-fired power plant at the mouth of the Conemaugh No. 1 Mine was a symbol of the area’s industrial might.

The vast majority of critical minerals and rare earth elements that help power electric vehicles and wind turbines come from mining operations overseas. But a new initiative spearheaded by the US ...

(AP) — In 2022, federal officials rebuked a major coal plant next to the Ohio River for letting coal waste — in a pile so big it could fill the Dallas Cowboys’ football stadium twice over — threaten ...