Next month will mark four decades since the year-long 1984-5 miners’ dispute came to its dismal end, with defeated strikers returning to work ...

Federal employee retirements are processed using paper, by hand, in an old limestone mine in Pennsylvania. 700+ mine workers operate 230 feet underground to process ~10,000 applications per month, ...

Developers say the two huge neighbouring battery farms - one at the site of a former opencast coal mine ... that it was ending mining there along with five other sites in Scotland.

The UK, however, appears to be ahead in terms of immediate reductions in coal use and the integration of renewables into its ...

A mine shaft collapse has created a 50ft wide crater on farmland near Bishop Auckland, the The Mining Remediation Authority has said.

Former Scottish coal mining communities are to share in an £11 million windfall from a new wind farm development. A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) has been signed between REG Greenburn Limited ...

Mining companies who want to drill Scotland for rare earth minerals are “keeping locals in the dark” about their plans, a new report has found Friends of the Earth Scotland said firms were ...

ENVIRONMENTAL campaigners condemned underground coal gasification (UCG) as a “reckless experiment” yesterday. Scientists are due to submit a review on UCG, which is under a moratorium, to the Scottish ...