The DEP says the problem comes from old maps of the coal mine. "They're inaccurate. They don't give us an idea of what the mines are like underground," said Colleen Connolly, DEP spokesperson.

(The Department of Energy keeps a map of eligible ... on former coal mine lands in Southwest Virginia, Eastern Tennessee, and Eastern Kentucky that fall within its Cumberland Forest Project ...

PENNSYLVANIA, USA — Pennsylvania has a long history of anthracite coal mining. The result is that millions of buildings and homes are located above abandoned mines. Looking to see old mine maps?

An environmental group says it will preserve 366 acres near the site of an old coal mine in west Jefferson ... Locust Fork flows 158 miles through the Cumberland Plateau to form the Black Warrior ...

The money will help Rye Development create a pumped-storage hydroelectric facility on a former surface coal mine site near the Cumberland River in Bell County. Water from the river would be used ...

Metallurgical coal miner Contura Energy has closed its transaction with Iron Senergy Holding for the divestment of the Cumberland thermal coal mine and related assets in Greene county, Pennsylvania.

It also has a 17-mile railway that brings coal from the preparation plant to the river for transport. Cumberland Mine, one of Greene County’s largest employers and a long-time mainstay in southw ...

Metallurgical coal miner Contura Energy has closed its transaction with Iron Senergy Holding for the divestment of the Cumberland thermal coal mine and related assets in Greene county, Pennsylvania.