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.

A group of Canton homeowners is complaining about what it calls a strip mine operation along Route 44, and the dispute has an odd quirk: The property owner involved is a member of the town’s planning ...

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.

LAS VEGAS, Nev. (FOX5) - Cleanup continues for Three Kids Mine area where 3,000 homes could be built. The manganese mine, operational from 1917 to 1961, left behind toxic metals and asbestos ...

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.