The ghost town of Marvel: Ruins tell tragic story of once-thriving Alabama mining town
Marvel was once a thriving coal mining community in Bibb County, home to three Roden Coal Co. shafts and a small village for ...
13 toxic towns that people have fled
From once-thriving cities contaminated with perilously high levels of radiation to desolate villages riddled with asbestos, ...
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Where to dispose of piles of old wind turbine blades? Coal mines.
Wind farm operators in Wyoming and across the nation can now bury decommissioned wind turbine blades and other materials at surface coal mines ... struck the nearby mining town of Wright in ...
State DEP determining size, extinguishing local mine fire that may have been burning for months
The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection is working to determine how big an underground mine fire is in ...
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Wandering through time: Locals still in search of long gone NEPA
So, it remains, off the beaten path, out in the woods. Yet, it still serves the community, in its own ways. The walls have ...
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State DEP determining size, extinguishing local mine fire that may have been burning for months
Centralia is in central Pennsylvania. A mine fire that’s been burning since 1962 has turned the place into a ghost town. Derrick Moss ... told him a low-quality coal is burning underground.
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North Jersey explorer investigated abandoned NJ mines for a decade. What he learned
Dan Lopez has spent the last 10 years exploring the dark abandoned mines ... and coal mines in Pennsylvania. He said copper mines at the Delaware Water Gap were impressive and had an old mine ...
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Small-town Americans swung for Trump. That doesn’t mean they’ll back him at any cost.
To see what Trump 2.0’s America could look like, John W. Miller spoke to people in Punxsutawney, Pa. about how life might ...
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Bob McCormick’s paintings evoke his past and the region’s
A tiny figure, a miner carrying his pick like a cross, almost too small to see beneath of buildings and coal breakers, trudge along a patch town street ... who started mining at 13, the ...