In the mid-1700s, the earliest area anthracite mines offered secure employment for local residents. Nearly 250 years later, ...

The US coal industry has been declining for decades, but that may change after a series of executive orders signed by President Trump. President ...

In the mid-1700s, the earliest area anthracite ... coal mines in Lackawanna or Luzerne counties.” It wasn’t until 1977, said Michael Hewitt, the program director at the nonprofit Eastern PA ...

Reading & Northern's entrepreneurial owner has built castoff Pennsylvania lines into 325-mile regional railroad powerhouse ...

The health and safety of coal miners could be in danger if the Trump administration eliminates mine safety employees, ...

Pennsylvania hunters bagged more deer this past season than they ... to conservation and they deserve our thanks.” READ: Will Pa. approve full Sunday hunting? A Q&A with state Sen.

In a series of documents issued Tuesday, President Donald J. Trump endorsed the idea that “coal-fired electricity generation is essential to ensuring that our nation’s grid is reliable and ...

The moves include loosening environmental rules, but it is unclear how much they can help reverse the sharp decline in coal power over the last two decades. By Brad Plumer and Mira Rojanasakul ...

The Homer City power plant, a retired coal-fired facility located about 50 miles east of Pittsburgh, will see new life as the nation’s largest natural gas-powered data center, according to an ...

President Donald Trump signed executive orders Tuesday to bolster the country’s declining coal industry, relaxing restrictions on coal mining, leasing and exports in what the White House said ...