MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (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 ...

Cal Fire is investigating a report that a state fire manager used a state bulldozer and firefighter labor to help build a motorcycle path and a fish pond on the property of a private residence in ...

The best site for a pond is a spot where the smallest dam possible impounds the largest possible amount of water. Once you identify that site, other considerations come into play, said Scott Jones, ...

Bob Lusk didn’t set out to be the Pond Boss. Fresh out of Texas A&M in 1979, Lusk wanted to raise fish for a living. Lusk graduated from college just in time to catch the leading edge of an ...

MORGANTOWN, W.Va.—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 ...

This Dec. 3, 2012 photo provided by the W.Va. Department of Environmental Protection shows the embankment after a collapse at the Consol's Robinson Run operation in Harrison County, W. Va. Crews ...

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 that ...