Disused coal mines could be refashioned to place vast fields of solar panels, a new report suggests, providing an unlikely ...

As American energy companies decrease their coal production, many wonder what comes next for the communities left behind.

The National Center for Public Policy Research uses shareholder proposals to pressure corporate America to ditch diversity, ...

A federal court has approved a class-action settlement and dismissed the case between West Virginia landowners and what is believed to be the nation’s largest owner of gas and oil wells. The court ...

The program focuses on strip mines. According to the Appalachian Citizen's Law Center, roughly 40% of Kentucky's active strip mines are effectively abandoned. A federal program works to give ...

Diversified Energy abandoned a Pennsylvania natural gas ... Worries about the long-term environmental costs have mounted in Appalachian and other oil and gas-producing communities across the ...

Diversified Energy, which disputes the state’s finding that it abandoned the wells ... the long-term environmental costs have mounted in Appalachian and other oil and gas-producing communities ...

Pollard seemingly fell into the hole which led to an abandoned mining shaft, and her remains were found days later. Pennsylvania, like other Appalachian states, has many abandoned mines ...

However, as a proponent of green energy and cleaning Appalachia’s communities, I see a path forward for Kentucky’s abandoned coal mines. To incentivize economic growth in our declining coal ...

Abandoned oil and gas wells dot the landscape ... until somebody runs across one in some manner, we don’t know about.” Appalachia doesn’t have a systematic approach to finding orphan wells. Industry ...