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While most of the abandoned mines in New Hampshire are not producing significant contamination, there are a few that have. (Courtesy of Trout Unlimited) With little attention in the media, except in a ...

Conservation groups are cheering the passage of new federal legislation that aims to help local officials and environmental groups remediate abandoned mines that threaten the country’s watersheds. The ...

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The ghosts of the Silver State’s mining roots aren’t just spooky — they’re a serious environmental hazard. About half a million abandoned mines lie untouched across America, polluting waterways and ...

Coal mines are notorious sources of acid mine drainage, but the orange sludge that threatens water supplies and wildlife also ...

PENNSYLVANIA, USA — Swaths of Pennsylvania and many other states are honeycombed with old, unstable mines that can cause the earth to suddenly give way — a phenomenon known as “mine subsidence” that ...

Before the United States was a country, New Jersey was mine country. State officials are aware of about 2,700 sites where mining or prospecting took place in the Garden State. The state Department of ...

There are as many as 500,000 abandoned mines nationwide — far outnumbering those that are still active, according to the federal Mine Safety and Health Administration. Rescue workers search through ...

From Europe to North America, an energy revolution is breathing new life into empty, long-forgotten coal mine shafts—by repurposing them into places to store renewable energy. Using "gravity batteries ...

Boulder, Colo., USA: For the past 250 years, people have mined coal industrially in Pennsylvania, USA. By 1830, the city of Pittsburgh was using more than 400 tons of the fossil fuel every day.

It was during Covid that Levi Kessler first started exploring historic underground mines in the Black Hills. Kessler only ...