The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has removed the Butler Mine Tunnel in Pittston Township from its list of the nation’s most contaminated hazardous waste sites, the agency announced Tuesday.

The first thing hydrogeologist Craig Robertson said in his talk about the Butler Mine Tunnel in the Pittston Library Cosgrove Community Room on Jan. 16 was, “This is the biggest friendly crowd I’ve ...

In February, Chuck Menichini, 58, of , was diagnosed with large B-cell lymphoma. His physician told him the cancer has an environmental cause, typically exposure to the chemical benzene. When you get ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... BONITA PEAK – Sloshing knee-deep through acid orange muck in a dark mining tunnel, an EPA crew wearing air monitors and headlamps peered at a massive ...

MARQUETTE, MI -- Eagle Mine, Michigan's first new mine in decades, has embarked on a multi-year tunneling project intent on reaching a second ore body under state forest land that could extend the ...

Driven by desire to know what lies beneath, crews bore deeper every day SILVERTON – Deep down, hundreds of feet below the Earth’s surface, the Environmental Protection Agency is looking for answers to ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has removed the Butler Mine Tunnel, notorious for spewing toxic chemicals into the Susquehanna River, from the Superfund National Priorities List. “Deleting ...

Studies since the 1950s have said the acid mine water rushing out of the Jeddo Tunnel is too expensive to treat, so Peter Haentjens has a different idea. Use the water to replenish supplies and ...

It was just like any other working day for the 92 coal miners when they woke up Thursday morning, June 5, 1919. They heartily ate their early breakfast their wives/mothers had prepared, took their ...

A state grant for $605,849 was awarded to a project to reclaim abandoned mine lands near the Pioneer Tunnel Coal Mine & Steam Train in Ashland. State Sen. David G. Argall, R-29, Rush Twp., and Rep.

ASHLAND – A 35-foot-tall piece of local coal-mining history was dedicated Monday as the newest addition to the Pioneer Tunnel Coal Mine & Steam Train. Local, state and county officials were joined ...

Empire Mine State Park Association volunteers joined the Nevada County Board of Supervisors in urging the California Department of Parks and Recreation to finish what it started. The project to build ...