To clean up the town landfill, officials set the dump on fire. What they didn’t realize was that this dump was located right ...

The largest surface mine in the state is the Centralia coal mine, which extends over an area of 3,500 acres. The Washington Department of Natural Resources (DNR) regulates the reclamation of non ...

The city councilors, minus Mayor Kelly Smith Johnston, discovered how TransAlta produces and distributes power to Centralia residents, as well as the coal plant, which opened in 1971. In 2011 ...

This hellish landscape constitutes about all that remains of the once-thriving town of Centralia, Pennsylvania. Forty-three years ago, a vast honeycomb of coal mines at the edge of the town caught ...