Targets projects designed to improve environmental conditions. Utah has an estimated 17,000 abandoned mine openings scattered ...

The legislation creates a pilot program under the Environmental Protection Agency that allows nonprofits, governments or ...

There are about 500,000 abandoned mines in the United States, according to the Mine Safety and Health Administration, and ...

A Pennsylvania coroner’s office says investigators believe they have located the body of a woman who was last seen four days ...

The search for 64-year-old Elizabeth Pollard, who fell into a sinkhole in Pittsburgh, has concluded after the coroner's ...

The body of a woman who fell into a 30-foot-deep sinkhole while looking for her cat in western Pennsylvania has been recovered.

Crews will return to the abandoned coal mine in Unity Township Friday and start to drill holes in the ground — about 40 feet ...

Swaths of Pennsylvania and many other states are honeycombed with old, unstable mines that can cause the earth to suddenly give way and threaten people and property. That's what searchers in ...

The hunters hadn’t noticed it ... State officials with expertise in abandoned mines were consulted. The team began to pump oxygen into the hole in hopes that she was alive.