For James and Laurie LaFontaine, it has been a 30-year journey, working to clean up a creek said to be the source of a majority of the pollution found downstream in the Allegheny River at Pittsburgh.

A container with 10 grams of yttrium, a rare earth element, is passed around during a meeting of the Indiana Rare Earth Recovery Council on Nov. 13, 2025. (Photo by Leslie Bonilla Muñiz/Indiana ...

An Indiana County project is getting a half-million-dollar share of $5,222,250 in federal funds being awarded through the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection for the restoration of ...

INDIANAPOLIS — Officials say Indiana is getting about $8.1 million in federal funding to help clean up and repurpose abandoned coal mines. The funding from the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and ...

When Emmanuel Siyabonga was a boy, he wasn't fussy about the type of job he wanted when he grew up. Other boys dreamed of being footballers, doctors, soldiers. All Siyabonga wanted, he says, was a job ...

Globally, energy markets are transitioning away from coal and toward solar energy. In 2024, the world installed a record-breaking 599 GW of solar and has nearly 2 TW in development. Installed solar ...