After being sealed in January due to a fire, officials have announced that the Leer South Mine in Barbour County has resumed ...

Kim Jones has a hard time explaining the disappearance of the once-gushing stream to her children, Kaitlyn and D.J. Steven Sunshine The brutally efficient coal-extraction method known as “longwall ...

Score one for King Coal in northern Appalachia. Today’s boom in the coalfields of southwestern Pennsylvania — where the 42.7 million tons extracted in 2007 fetches double its price ($111 a ton) of ...

The share price of Core Natural Resources, Inc. (NYSE:CNR) surged by 3.98% between December 12 and December 19, 2025, putting ...

CANONSBURG, Pa., Dec. 18, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Core Natural Resources, Inc. (NYSE: CNR) ("Core," the "company," "we" or "our") announced that it has resumed longwall operations at its Leer ...

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Coal mining giant Consol Energy, Inc. has been destroying streams in southwestern Pennsylvania with its longwall mining practices for years, and the Sierra Club and the Center for Coalfield Justice ...

An Amwell Township-based environmental group has submitted a study to the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, contending the agency is not diligently enforcing longwall mining ...

WITT, Ill. — The nation’s hunt for fuel soon may sweep below the lush fields of corn and soybeans here, and it could dramatically change the prairie landscape. Two mining companies want to dig for ...

An energy-starved nation’s hunt for new fuel soon may sweep below the lush fields of corn and soybeans here, and it could literally–and dramatically–change the prairie landscape. Two mining companies ...

WITT, Ill. — The nation’s hunt for fuel soon may sweep below the lush fields of corn and soybeans here, and it could dramatically change the prairie landscape. Two mining companies want to dig for ...

Don Downard worked 35 years in southern Illinois coal mines to pay for his modest ranch home in rural West Frankfort. Like many in coal-rich Franklin County, he started in the mines as an eager young ...