This old Pennsylvania coal town could get a reboot from AI

At its peak, the Homer City power plant employed hundreds of people and could deploy enough to power 2 million homes. As the ...
News on the Green

Coal transformed our nation and our town

For the early part of its history, Brookfield Township, which was founded in 1799, was a rural community economically driven ...
The American Prospect

Moshannon ICE Protest in Rural Pennsylvania Coal Town Opens Eyes

This piece is cross-posted from Payday Report, a website about the labor movement. PHILIPSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA – Early on Sunday morning, members of the Pittsburgh chapter of the Party for Socialism and ...
WESA

In Western Pennsylvania, an old coal town gets a gas-fired data center

Homer City Generating Station's remaining smokestack, April 3, 2025. The site will be cleared for a natural gas power plant and data center. On a Saturday morning in March, a demolition crew took down ...
WESA

Pa. DEP OKs ‘Rustic Ridge’ coal mine expansion beneath Pa. Turnpike

The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection has approved the expansion of an underground coal mine in Westmoreland County. Johnstown-based LCT Energy LP operates the 2,800-acre Rustic ...