Critics have characterized the transfer as a raid on the trust fund established by the 1977 Surface Mine Reclamation Act, the ...

Swaths of Pennsylvania and many other states are honeycombed with old, unstable mines that can cause the earth to suddenly give way and threaten people and property. That's what searchers in ...

OFFICIALS WANT YOU TO HEAR IN THE AFTERMATH OF THIS TRAGEDY. PENNSYLVANIA’S DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION SAYS ONE THIRD OF AMERICA’S ABANDONED MINE LANDS ARE HERE IN PENNSYLVANIA. I’M ...

UNITY TOWNSHIP, Pa. (KDKA) - At least another full day of digging will be needed to find a woman who is believed to have been swallowed by a sinkhole behind a restaurant in Westmoreland County, ...

HARRISBURG – The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) has awarded $19,640,380 for the environmental restoration of eight abandoned mine lands (AML) projects as part of the ...

Investigation reveals dozens of dangerous abandoned mines in Western Pennsylvania Elizabeth Pollard died in December after falling into a sinkhole at an abandoned mine in Unity Township, Westmoreland ...

ANOTHER TRAGEDY. PLEASE HAVE A MOMENT OF SILENCE, A MOMENT OF SILENCE FOR LONG, UNITY TOWNSHIP RESIDENT ELIZABETH POLLARD, WHO DIED AFTER FALLING THROUGH A SINKHOLE INTO AN ABANDONED MINE LAST WEEK.

Swaths of Pennsylvania and many other states are honeycombed with old, unstable mines that can cause the earth to suddenly give way and threaten people and property. That's what searchers in ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Swaths of Pennsylvania and many other states ...