But the old mines also left behind a legacy of trouble for today’s Westerners. Abandoned mines dot the Western landscape, polluting the region’s streams with acid mine drainage and connecting the ...

(WKBN) — Millions of structures in Pennsylvania and Ohio are located over old, abandoned underground coal and clay mines — but how do you know where to find them, and how much of a threat do ...

There are at least 302 “orphan sites” in New Mexico, where “known or suspected contamination is causing a threat to human ...

The abandoned mines that have caused sinkholes on I-80 in New Jersey will be monitored by both state and federal officials to ensure the safety of the highway, officials said. Gov. Phil Murphy’s ...

Taylor and the state Department of Environmental Protection plan to use $265,000-plus in federal funding to tear down a century-old, fire-damaged building at the former Taylor Colliery. The Taylor ...

When an abandoned mine collapsed beneath a neighborhood in Fayette County, buckling a home’s foundation and tearing apart the roadway, the Pennsylvania Bureau of Abandoned Mine ...

But, today, that mining has hollowed out the ground beneath us. Pennsylvania’s inventory of abandoned coal mines is larger than that of any other state in the nation, and the Keystone State has ...

Nevada is home to more than 300,000 abandoned mines — mines that can kill you in an almost unimaginable number of ways. But those mines from Nevada’s olden days are attracting a modern-day ...