This story originally appeared on StateImpact Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania is getting less money from the federal government this year to clean up its old abandoned mines. The state is getting $32 ...

Chalfant Run, where the water currently looks milky-white because of aluminum from acid mine drainage. Pennsylvania is getting unprecedented amounts of federal money to clean up old coal mines. Last ...

Polluted water gushes from boreholes across Pennsylvania to relieve pressure from decades-old coal mines. Bobby Hughes, the leader of a local environmental group, has made it his mission to plug this ...

WASHINGTON — Towering high over the community of Ehrenfeld, Pa., is a hill of coal waste decades in the making. Instead of a symbol of the past, however, some, including Joe Pizarchik, director of the ...

PHILIPSBURG – As solar developers set their sights on roughly 1,500 acres in rural Rush Twp., Centre County, local elected officials are tasked with figuring out how to welcome the proposed project ...

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