When Donald Trump came to Scranton as a presidential candidate in 2016, he made a promise that drew a standing ovation from the crowd. Trump said that he would bring anthracite coal mining back in a ...
In his painting, “Pat Stood on Slag,” Bob McCormick portrays his grandfather as a young lad standing in a field of slag near a mining patch in Schuylkill County’s coal fields. Patrick Henry McCormick ...
Since the beginning of industrialization in the 19th century, coal has had a significant impact on the world’s energy supply. To this day, despite widespread calls to transition to clean energy ...