There’s a pachyderm of a quandary haunting the executive conference rooms of Class I railroads, and short lines may be the ...

Ministers were told to 'get on with it' after it emerged the 55,000-ton delivery from Japan, which arrived at a port in ...

Along with the spans, the torrent washed away several cars of a coal train that had stopped on the bridge because of weather warnings in the area. The train originated at a power plant near ...

Beckjord coal plant site, where leftover coal ash is stored in unlined pits perched on the Ohio River. They worry that rising groundwater will directly mix with the toxic ash buried on site.

This includes seven in Kentucky, which would leave the fifth-leading coal producing state with just two MSHA facilities. There also are four offices slated to close in Pennsylvania; two apiece in ...

A century ago, the Michigan Central Railroad built a coaling tower in Michigan City. The local landmark hovering over the ...

The retired coal-fired Komati Power Station, operated by Eskom, near Komati village, in the Mpumalanga province in South Africa [File: Siphiwe Sibeko/Reuters] President Donald Trump’s ...

A coal-fired power plant in Ibbenburen, Germany, was demolished in a controlled explosion on Sunday, April 6. WDR News reported that both the100-meter-high boiler house and the 125-meter-high ...

Now one of the world’s biggest fossil fuel ports, thanks to decades of voracious demand for steelmaking coal and gas from an industrializing Asia, it is facing the biggest test yet: Whether it ...

The closure of Cannock No 8 pit in 1962 marked the beginning of the end of mining in the Midlands. Hamstead Colliery, on the edge of Birmingham, would continue mining for another few years but ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Retired coal miner Stanley “Goose” Stewart questions whether it’s safe for anyone to work in the industry right now. The Department of Government Efficiency ...

A new school in Ireland is training up a fresh generation of thatchers in a bid to save the country's disappearing thatched roofs, an iconic feature of the Irish landscape. In a hall in Portnoo ...