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No buildings were ablaze when the Pleasant Valley Volunteer Fire Department responded to a smoke investigation call near Fairmont last week. The incendiary simmering, instead, was coming from about 40 ...
Smoke rises from the ground in Centralia, Pa., where an uncontrolled coal-mine fire has raged for decades. After years of delay, state officials are now trying to complete the demolition of Centralia.
The mine fire Ulicny is talking about isn't in Centralia, or even Girardville. The Kehley Run mine fire was right on the doorstep of Shenandoah Borough itself.
Rapid landscape changes as a result of anthropogenic development can result in increased hazards for nearby communities, including exposure of soils to runoff, pollution, and slope collapse. Elevation ...
“Centralia is not a tourist destination. Much of the area has its dangers with toxic gases and subsidence, meaning the ground can and does cave in, possibly opening up dangerous underground caverns of ...
The clue: “About an hour from Wilkes-Barre, the Centralia Mine Fire in the Buck Mountain coal bed in this state has been ablaze since 1962.” The answer: “Where is Pennsylvania?” National recognition ...
Tenants are resorting to living in cupboards to escape rocketing rents – but it’s not just a UK problem. We’ve tracked down some tales of unusual living arrangements from around the ...
A proposed 250-megawatt lithium-ion battery facility at the former John A. Coleman Catholic High School campus is raising ...
Wyoming's Brook Mine that aims to reduce U.S. foreign reliance on critical minerals for defense, technology and clean energy ...
As West Virginia celebrates its history and birthday, the town of Madison is celebrating the Mountain State’s strong ...
Coal used to make steel got a break in the latest version of President Donald Trump's tax bill, a subsidy that could be worth ...
It would allow the mine’s operator, Signal Peak Energy, to mine nearly 60 million tons of coal, mostly for export to Asia. “This is what energy leadership looks like,” Doug Burgum, the ...