Hundreds of abandoned coal mines dot the Kentucky countryside, leaving scars on the land and the people who worked in them but with an influx of federal infrastructure money, mine remediation projects ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Kentucky did not always comply with federal requirements in its use of grant funding for cleanup of former coal mining sites, and ...

One man has died after he and a coworker were trapped beneath tons of concrete and steel when an 11-story building being ...

When the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act was signed into law in 2021, authorizing more than $11 billion in new funding to reclaim lands and waterways damaged by abandoned coal mines, the people ...

A man and a dog were rescued from an abandoned coal mine in Eastern Kentucky Sunday after a girl who had also been trapped in the mine managed to get out on her own and share her location with local ...

The money comes from the Abandoned Mine Lands Economic Revitalization program, or AMLER. It’s been 10 years since Rogers, a ...

The Company, through a newly created subsidiary, Range Bluegrass Land LLC ("Range Bluegrass"), acquired all of the real and personal property of the Premier Elkhorn Mine Complex and the Cambrian Coal ...

In California, a gold mine caved in beneath a family living room, killing a 32-year-old man and his dog. In Pennsylvania, a grandmother died when an abandoned coal mine gave way under her feet while ...

Scientists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory have found a way to convert the nation's 500,000 abandoned coal mines into long-term energy storage using pumped hydro technology. Repurposing the mines ...

This story was updated with a statement from the Kentucky Energy and Environment Cabinet. Kentucky did not always comply with federal requirements in its use of grant funding for cleanup of former ...