These weren’t safe or stable places to explore. Two abandoned mines, each with their own risks and unknowns. Loose rock, poor ...

It was during Covid that Levi Kessler first started exploring historic underground mines in the Black Hills. Kessler only ...

From Europe to North America, an energy revolution is breathing new life into empty, long-forgotten coal mine shafts—by repurposing them into places to store renewable energy. Using "gravity batteries ...

Dozens of people get injured or die in the U.S. every year because they don’t follow this simple advice: Stay out of abandoned and active mines and surrounding lands. Abandoned mines are not history ...

What began as a stack of fragile, century-old mine maps is being transformed into an immersive 3D window into the past by archaeologists, energy policy experts and data scientists at Michigan ...

OSDOL HAS OUR STORY FROM MONROEVILLE. THREE MONTHS BEFORE LIZ POLLARD’S DEATH, STATE DEP OFFICIALS LEARNED OF A SINKHOLE. AT THIS MONROEVILLE APARTMENT COMPLEX, LEADING TO ANOTHER ABANDONED MINE.

The House passed a bill to repurpose $500 million meant for cleaning up coal country’s environmental and safety hazards.

The perceived governance gaps create a persistent risk premium. Projects must promise higher returns to attract funding.