A new report from the regional think tank Ohio River Valley Institute finds that just four states in Central Appalachia are home to one-fifth of the country’s abandoned and orphaned oil and gas wells.

Dave Hoffman of West Virginia University's Water Research Institute holds up a vial of light rare earth oxides at a facility that separates them from acidic groundwater draining from an abandoned coal ...

The Hobet coal mine in West Virginia, once of the state's largest surface mines but abandoned since 2015, has been a major source of selenium pollution; some cleanup and redevelopment efforts are ...

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The Biden Administration recently announced nearly half a billion dollars from both the Inflation Reduction and Infrastructure laws would go toward clean energy projects at former coal mines. Some ...

Thousands of miles of streams across the country are running orange, contaminated by highly acidic water draining from abandoned coal mines. Rather than supporting local economies, these abandoned ...

The Trump administration has frozen funds used for abandoned mine land cleanup. Through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, Congress invested around $11 billion into a trust fund to help address the ...

MOUNT STORM, W.Va. (AP) — Down a long gravel road, tucked into the hills in West Virginia, is a low-slung building where researchers are extracting essential elements from an old coal mine that they ...

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