After a year of uncertainty, federal mine safety research employees in Pa. get good news
The roughly 100 employees at the Pittsburgh Mining Research Division were notified that they’re no longer subject to layoffs announced last spring.
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Second coal mine proposed in the Laurel Highlands met with opposition: ‘I wish it wasn’t coming’
A company wants to open up a mine for metallurgical coal, used to make steel. But some residents are worried about mine subsidence and its impact on water quality.
Trump moves to strip union rights of NIOSH workers
The NIOSH Coal Worker Health Surveillance Program screens coal miners for black lung disease and helps them with job transfers that can protect their health.
Despite court order, black lung screening program still not fully functional
There are no funds to operate a mobile X-ray unit and the agency is missing contract workers to read chest X-rays.
Federal officials call miners’ health a ‘priority,’ but are cutting a Pa. team studying mine safety
A roughly 100-person team at a NIOSH facility in Allegheny County are set to lose their jobs in June. They study the best ways to prevent injuries, illnesses and death in coal mines.
PA DEP OKs ‘Rustic Ridge’ coal mine expansion beneath PA Turnpike
The company will mine metallurgical coal, but an environmental group worries the project will exacerbate longstanding mine drainage problems in the Laurel Highlands.
Advocates, environmentalists split as Trump signs orders to bolster coal industry
President Donald Trump signed four executive orders on Tuesday to reinvigorate the country’s coal mining industry.
Coal powered the industrial revolution. It left behind an ‘absolutely massive’ environmental catastrophe
Scenes from the end of coal: A blasted mountaintop in Kentucky, an underground inferno in Pennsylvania, slowly dying maples in New Hampshire and a toxic pile of waste in Florida.
Pa. expects billions from the infrastructure law for coal mine cleanups. Will it help polluted waterways?
Abandoned mines pollute thousands of miles of waterways in Pa. Advocates want to make sure funds from the new infrastructure law help pay for the cleanup.
A new documentary chronicles the rebirth of a Western Pennsylvania river
The Little Conemaugh River was devoid of life from pollution from abandoned mines. A new film looks at a decade-long effort to bring it back to life.
