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Decades after underground coal mining all but ended in Eastern Pennsylvania, residents of certain areas continue today to ...
Pennsylvania has seen 1,154 oil and gas wells abandoned since 2020. In the past two and a half years, on the other hand, only ...
But, today, that mining has hollowed out the ground beneath us. Pennsylvania’s inventory of abandoned coal mines is larger than that of any other state in the nation, and the Keystone State has ...
BURGETTSTOWN, Pa. (KDKA) -- One hundred orphaned and abandoned wells in Pennsylvania have been plugged in the past 10 months, more than in the past six years combined, Gov. Josh Shapiro said on ...
THE OLD GAS WELL IN HER FRONT YARD IS ONE OF MORE THAN 200,000 ABANDONED AND GAS OR OIL WELLS IN PENNSYLVANIA, MANY OF THEM EMITTING TOXIC METHANE GAS. A DETECTOR FINDS GAS COMING FROM THIS WELL ...
UNITY TOWNSHIP, Pa. (KDKA) — As rescue efforts have turned to recovery amid the search for a missing woman who fell through a sinkhole in Unity Township, search teams fear the abandoned mine ...
WASHINGTON, D.C. (WTAJ) — U.S. Senator Bob Casey (D-PA) announced that $245,082,772 has been secured to be used for abandoned mine lands across Pennsylvania. The funding, which comes from the ...
Three days after a Pennsylvania woman searching for her ... State officials with expertise in abandoned mines were consulted. The team began to pump oxygen into the hole in hopes that she was ...
Pennsylvania faces a problem with hundreds of abandoned boats litttering waterways and marinas. Proposed legislation aims to strengthen penalties for boat abandonment, classifying it as a ...
At a Sinkhole Above an Abandoned Pennsylvania Coal Mine, Hopes of a Rescue Dwindle Three days after a Pennsylvania woman searching for her cat disappeared at the chasm of a three-story deep ...