A geology field trip will take participants into a historic coal mine and a fossil site on Saturday, May 3, led by geologist ...

Since its launch in April 2015, Bucknell University’s Coal Region Field Station has empowered students, faculty and local ...

More than 700 Bucknell students have worked on around 125 projects, resulting in over $3.5 million in funding for community ...

Happy Birthday to the Electric City!Scranton, Pennsylvania turned 159 years old Wednesday.Assistant Director of the ...

Reasons to be Cheerful explains how "gravity batteries" are giving former mines a second life—while offering an economic and environmental boost to communities once reliant on coal. From Europe ...

“We plan to add another plant within 18 months as we focus on becoming a leading anthracite producer in the region,” Guess said. Guess & Co. recently purchased 2,700 acres of bituminous coal ...

Bituminous coal is the other and second-best burning. It’s mined mostly in Western Pennsylvania. Anthracite accounted for less than ... shut off their underground water pumps and left the region for ...

Critically, anthracite coal — found in abundance in Pennsylvania — is essential to steel production, a sector vital to our national defense and infrastructure. … In Pennsylvania alone ...

For those who want to stay in the northeast U.S., retiring in Pennsylvania is looking more and more attractive.