Climate change is not just changing our atmosphere, it is changing the fabric of many rural towns nationwide. As the United States has moved to renewable sources of energy, it has strained the coal ...

Once a thriving anthracite coal town, Centralia slowly unraveled after a landfill fire ignited its labyrinth of mining ...

LCT Energy, based in Johnstown, is operating a mine called Rustic Ridge #1, located in Westmoreland County. Now, it’s ...

The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection has approved the expansion of an underground coal mine in Westmoreland County. Johnstown-based LCT Energy LP operates the 2,800-acre Rustic ...

Climate activists worry about the high-energy demand for bitcoin mining. A once-dormant power plant is humming with activity outside Pittsburgh as thousands of miners work 24 hours a day. The miners ...

The body of a missing grandmother was discovered four days after she fell into a sinkhole while looking for her cat in an abandoned coal mine town about 40 miles southeast of Pittsburgh, the country ...