SPRINGFIELD — Illinois stands to receive $1 billion in federal funding over the next 15 years to remediate hundreds of acres of distressed land used for coal mining prior to 1977, thanks to the ...

The $725 million is the first pot of money designated through the bipartisan infrastructure law for abandoned mine reclamation. The Biden administration has unveiled guidance for states and some ...

Dave Hoffman of West Virginia University's Water Research Institute holds up a vial of light rare earth oxides at a facility that separates them from acidic groundwater draining from an abandoned coal ...

Across Appalachia, rust-colored water seeps from abandoned coal mines, staining rocks orange and coating stream beds with metals. These acidic discharges, known as acid mine drainage, are among the ...

As new financial documents reveal the total cost of cleaning up the Eagle Gold Mine failure, it’s still unknown whether the Yukon government is guaranteed to recoup the millions it loaned out.

The Tulsequah Chief mine in northwest British Columbia, about 30 miles upstream of Juneau, has been discharging untreated mine waste into the Taku watershed for almost 70 years. There have been ...

For more than a century, abandoned mines such as the Triumph Mine in central Idaho have scarred the American West, leaking toxic heavy metals into waterways and threatening communities and ecosystems.

ST. PAUL -- Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton returned from touring a South Dakota mine Tuesday determined to make sure any northeastern Minnesota copper-nickel mine owner pays for clean-up costs before the ...