A coal mine in southeastern B.C. is seeking to expand operations as an investigation is underway into cross-border water ...

Water pollution from surface coal mining has degraded more than 22 percent of streams and rivers in southern West Virginia to the point they may now qualify as impaired under state criteria, ...

WASHINGTON – Opponents of a proposed update to federal rules protecting water sources from coal mining pollution vowed Tuesday to fight the regulations. “This seems to be less about new ...

It’s sunny and in the mid-70s in Tuscaloosa County, Alabama right now. Normally, that would be prime conditions for a swim in Davis Creek or Texas Creek.

The Riverkeeper group says that pollution from waste storage ponds at Warrior Met Coal’s Mine No. 7 is seeping into two unnamed tributaries to Texas Creek and Davis Creek, which then flow into ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — One of the nation's largest coal producers will pay a $27.5 million fine and spend $200 million to reduce illegal toxic discharges into hundreds of waterways across five ...

The Environmental Protection Agency issued tough new water quality guidelines on Thursday that could curtail some of the most contentious coal mining techniques used across Appalachia. In ...

One of the country’s largest coal mining companies has agreed to pay the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) $2 million to settle allegations over water pollution. The EPA alleged that Arch ...

It is this mining operation that activists say has rendered the water of the Santan River unusable for drinking, irrigation or aquaculture. Indominco Mandiri coal mine operation in Santan Ilir ...

The agency operates over 40 acid mine drainage treatment systems in the state, the majority of which use artificial wetlands, settling ponds, and other passive methods to clean the water. None are ...

GUNNISON, Colo.— A Gunnison County judge today upheld a Colorado state agency’s decision requiring the West Elk coal mine to monitor and limit pollution from eight stormwater discharge sources, water ...

Starting in the 1800s, the coal mining industry provided economic opportunity for the state of Ohio. Many of these mines were later abandoned, resulting in environmental problems. Pictured, two ...