MAHANOY CITY — An industry trade association is calling on President Donald Trump to enact tariffs on imported anthracite coal, a spokesperson announced Wednesday. “The anthracite industry requests ...

WILKES-BARRE, Pa. (AP) - Black diamonds might not have as many settings these days as they did a century ago, but they haven’t lost their luster. Although mining operations have scaled back ...

Anthracite mined in Northeast Pennsylvania has the highest grade of carbon in the world and is a different product than what politicians refer to when they call for “No More Coal,” a local mining ...

Northeast Pennsylvania is sitting atop an immense quantity of anthracite coal, according to the Pennsylvania Anthracite Council. “Current estimates show 4 to 6 billion tons of reserves of anthracite ...

In the wake of the Oct. 23 explosion, R&D Coal Co. - located in Schuylkill County in Pennsylvania - has been cleared and no miners remain underground, according to the Pennsylvania Department of ...

Photographed in 1972, the coal miners pictured worked in Wanamie, Newport Township, one of the last underground coal mines operating in the 1970s in Wyoming Valley. WILKES-BARRE — Professor Bob ...

Reporting from Allentown, Pa. — When Peter Kupec was a boy, his mother cooked on a coal stove in the kitchen, which heated the whole house. Now 80, Kupec still uses coal to heat his Lansford home in ...

Black diamonds might not have as many settings these days as they did a century ago, but they haven’t lost their luster. Although mining operations have scaled back considerably from the decades in ...