Coal mining is indelibly woven into the fabric of daily life in the mountains of southeast Kentucky, but a decline in the ...

In December 2022, planning permission was granted by the secretary of state for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities ("SoS") to extract coal from a coal mine in Whitehaven, Cumbria, England. The ...

Contentious plans to open the UK's first new coal mine in decades appeared doomed Friday after it emerged the new Labour government will not defend the project's previous approval in court. The High ...

As one type of geologic disaster, coal and gas outbursts seriously threaten safe production in coal mines, restricting the sustainable development of the mining industry. However, coal and gas ...

Britain’s approval of its first new deep coal mine in decades was unlawful, London’s High Court ruled on Friday following a legal challenge brought by environmental campaigners. Friends of the Earth ...

The same tunnels used to extract fossil fuels for centuries are now helping to heat British homes with clean energy from the Earth’s core. It’s called mine water heating and it has the potential to ...