HAMILTON COUNTY, IL (WSIL) -- One person is dead after an accident at a coal mine in Hamilton County.
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ILLINOIS (WSIL) -- The Biden Administration announces $75 million from the federal infrastructure law is now available to Illinois to clean up abandoned coal mines.Â
MACEDONIA, IL (WSIL) -- The U.S, Department of Labor's Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) proposes almost $1.2 million in civil pena…
Sierra Club Illinois and Prairie Rivers Network announced they are appealing the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency's decision to grant a National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit to Williamson Energy LLC, the owner of the Pond Creek coal mine.
A local mayor shared his thoughts of a mine's new permit that could allow it to dump its discharge waters into the Big Muddy River.
Illinois will receive more than $75 million in funding from the U.S. Department of Interior this year to boost efforts to clean up abandoned coal mines throughout the state, Governor JB Pritzker announced Monday.Â
MACEDONIA, Ill. (AP) - The Illinois attorney general is accusing a coal mine operator of polluting the area with toxic foam to try to stop an underground fire.
Seventy years ago on December 21, 1951, 119 men were killed when an explosion ripped through Orient #2 mine in West Frankfort.Â
WAVERLY, KENTUCKY (WSIL) -- Authorities say a coal miner has died in an accident at an underground mine.
Sierra Club Illinois and the Prairie Rivers Network announced that they filed a Notice of Intent to sue Sugar Camp Energy LLC and American Consolidated Natural Resources for violations of the Clean Water Act, the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act, and the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act.