New interior secretary quietly orders millions of acres of protected lands to be reviewed for potential oil, gas, uranium and ...

A coal mine was the first to wreck the land. Now activists want to keep another extractive industry from taking root there: ...

A coal mine was the first to wreck the land. Now activists want to keep another extractive industry from taking root there: prisons.

The tailings basin at Milepost 7 could be studied for the cumulative effects of extending its dams, even though the project ...

A new "time tunnel" exhibition which tells the history of British coal mining has opened in West Yorkshire. The feature, ...

Residents of Thompson, Texas in Fort Bend County are renewing calls to close a coal plant that is causing health concerns for ...

Carbon County, home to Price, Helper, Sunnyside and more, relied mostly on mines for its economy. The mines are shrinking in ...

Prohibition was in full force in February 1923 when Deputy Sheriff R.T. Edwards arrested three bootleggers in Sego, Utah, closed their drinking parlors and confiscated 75 gallons of booze.

Georgia’s largest electric provider is going back on its promise to close coal plants across the state in the face of rising demand for energy, especially from large projects like data centers.

As the risk of extreme flooding increases with climate change, an effort is underway to relocate hundreds of flood survivors ...

Meanwhile, the government is promoting another opportunity for U.S. hunters to come shoot things here off-season ...