Wyoming's first new coal mine in 50 years is said to be operating soon but it won't rely on the fossil fuel to make money.

Open-pit mining is a type of surface mining used to extract coal, gold, and other minerals. It creates immense water and air pollution, disfigures landscapes, and destroys habitats.

Therefore, there is no scope for doubt that open-pit coal mining in Phulbari and Barapukuria areas will cause serious social, economic, and environmental disasters.

The Interior Department signed off on a mine on Nature Conservancy-managed forestland in Tennessee. The Trump administration ...

China has deployed a fleet of autonomous electric mining trucks at the Yimin open-pit coal mine in Inner Mongolia. The operation, led by state-backed energy giant Huaneng Group, includes 100 ...

Alberta announced a new coal policy that will ban new open-pit coal mines in the foothills but allow steel-making mines to be built.

Alberta has announced plans to draft new rules that will see mountaintop removal mining and open-pit coal developments prohibited on the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains. In a statement on ...

The extraction of coal in Bangladesh has never gained momentum, as bureaucratic paperwork keeps piling up.  Whether it is open-pit or underground mining, files circulate between departments for ...

Industrialist Isidro Consunji built his family's DMCI into an infrastructure empire. The $660 million acquisition of a ...

As the provincial government finalizes details of new rules for coal mining in Alberta’s mountains and foothills, one company is asking officials to pick a definition of open pit mining that won ...

Researchers argue that 300GW of solar energy could be produced at Mpumalanga’s old mines and those closing in the next decade ...