Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When retired coal miner Phillip Johnson bought a small building several years ago, he had someone he knew with a bulldozer haul it ...

In rural northwest Pennsylvania, Jim Irey, a civil engineer and vice president of Berner Construction of Gap, Pa., located about 4-1/2 hours away to the southeast, is working on his fifth area coal ...

In Texas, surface mine reclamation is a decades-long process – one that requires scientific precision, environmental insight and strong collaboration. For nearly 50 years, Texas A&M AgriLife has ...

An excavator clears out trees Thursday on an old mine site near Pella in Marion County. A state program is working to reclaim land that was once used for coal mining. The land will be turned into a ...