(AP) With a driver and his bulldozer missing in a thick, dark lake of coal slurry, a mine safety expert and critic of the coal industry says regulators are ignoring stricter construction standards ...

125 were killed in the 1972 Buffalo Creek Flood, pictured here, when a coal slurry dam broke. A North Carolina miner's death last week has renewed concerns over the safety of coal slurry ponds. By ...

Spanish energy company Intergia is helping a group of pig farmers in Spain add floating PV to reduce the ammonia emissions of a slurry pond of a pig farm in Tauste, in the Spanish northern region of ...

Feb. 25 (UPI) --Firefighters in Britain rescued a cow that wandered into a deep slurry pond and sank up to its neck. The Leicestershire Fire and Rescue Service's Lutterworth Station said in a Facebook ...

Virginia slurry ponds similar to the one that failed in Harriman, Tenn., are inspected regularly by state and federal officials, as well as the companies that own them. And they are “over-designed” to ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — In parts of eastern Kentucky, the pictures coming out of Hungary of the red sludge that roared from a factory's reservoir, downstream into the Danube River, are all too reminiscent ...

LUMBERPORT, W.Va. — Search crews have recovered the body of a worker missing since Nov. 30 in a West Virginia coal slurry pond. Consol Energy spokeswoman Lynn Seay said Friday that the body of 58-year ...

(AP) Slurry pond failures like the one that swallowed a bulldozer and its driver last week at a West Virginia coal mine could be avoided if the waste pits were built to strict construction standards ...