The electricity needed to power new Pennsylvania data centers already in advanced stages of planning could power 11 million homes – nearly twice the total number of households in the state. Companies ...

U.S. Reps Chris Deluzio (D-17th District) and Summer Lee (D-12th District) announced bills Tuesday as part of a three-piece ...

For the third year in a row, Pennsylvania has secured nearly $245 million to deal with abandoned mine lands. The funding is used for projects such as removing huge coal waste piles and leveling cliffs ...

Patrick Damp is a web producer for CBS Pittsburgh. A Pittsburgh native who grew up watching KDKA-TV, Patrick studied journalism at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. After half a decade in sports ...

Swaths of Pennsylvania and many other states are honeycombed with old, unstable mines that can cause the earth to suddenly give way and threaten people and property. That's what searchers in ...

UPDATE: For more updates on Wednesday's search and rescue efforts in Unity Township, Westmoreland County, click here. UNITY TOWNSHIP, Pa. (KDKA) -- The abandoned mine where search and rescue efforts ...

Work to reclaim more than 40 acres of former mining land in Richland Township is nearing its midpoint, according to the ...

Dozens of people get injured or die in the U.S. every year because they don’t follow this simple advice: Stay out of abandoned and active mines and surrounding lands. Abandoned mines are not history ...

OFFICIALS WANT YOU TO HEAR IN THE AFTERMATH OF THIS TRAGEDY. PENNSYLVANIA’S DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION SAYS ONE THIRD OF AMERICA’S ABANDONED MINE LANDS ARE HERE IN PENNSYLVANIA. I’M ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Wangda Zuo, Penn State (THE CONVERSATION) The electricity needed to power new ...