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A new coal mine is opening in Pennsylvania. Is Trump to thank? A new mine in Pennsylvania's anthracite coal country has not brought new jobs to the region. Coal is piled up at the the Blaschak Coal ...
Despite the Trump administration's efforts to help the coal industry, mines keep closing. One of them is in the Pennsylvania district that's holding a special election to fill a seat in Congress.
No matter how hot it is this summer, you’ll need a light jacket for this next destination. It’s about 50 degrees in the Lackawanna Coal Mine all year long.
Even amid ubiquitous predications of a decline in coal extraction, the mine has been praised locally as an economic lifeline for a region hard hit by the decline in coal-fired power plants and ...
At the Panther Creek plant in Carbon County, Pennsylvania, the waste from old coal mines is being used to power a Bitcoin mine. The plant is 2,800 miles away from Silicon Valley.
Pennsylvania is getting another $29 million in federal funding to clean up abandoned mines, as part of the mine cleanup projects also aimed at promoting economic development.
Pennsylvania coal production however, has increased in the past few years, from 36.3 million tons in 2020 to 42.6 million tons in 2023, making it the third-largest coal producer in the nation ...
Mining was always a close second with agriculture because western Pennsylvania was bituminous industry and northeastern Pennsylvania's anthracite industry." "The two big monikers that our mine shares ...
LANSFORD, Pa. (WPVI) -- In this edition of One Tank Trips, we are going underground - and back in time - for an up-close look at a coal mine in Carbon County. The No. 9 Coal Mine operated from ...
Smoke billows from an abandoned coal mine in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. WFMZ-TV 69 News, based in Allentown, recently aired a four-part series about the fire. (WFMZ-TV) ...