An American town has been burning underground for more than 60 years. Once a thriving coal community, Centralia, Pennsylvania was slowly erased from the map, its streets abandoned, homes demolished, ...

Centralia, Pennsylvania looks like an ordinary abandoned town — except the ground beneath it has been burning since 1962.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The steam plume from the TransAlta coal power plant outside Centralia, Wash. could formerly be seen from 30 miles away on cold, ...

Timing is everything. Just before the holidays, the federal Department of Energy declared an energy supply emergency to justify its effort to overturn state law and force the retiring coal-fired power ...