Amish-owned DS Machine manufactures and sells anthracite coal and wood stoves – products often used in Amish homes. With the high cost of home heating, others across the country are buying the ...

Nearly 130,000 homes in the U.S. still burn coal for heat. Despite decades of decline and concerns about climate change, companies in the coal home-heating business are optimistic about the future.

Some use anthracite coal as their primary heating source while some modern homeowners put in coal stoves as a supplemental heating source, he said. “I probably have about 150 customers ...

Reporting from Allentown, Pa. — When Peter Kupec was a boy, his mother cooked on a coal stove in the kitchen, which heated the whole house. Now 80, Kupec still uses coal to heat his Lansford ...

Anthracite – or hard coal for residential use – was once a popular way to heat kitchens, garages and workshops before being eclipsed for home use by other fuels, in particular oil and wood.

All of the coal stoves burn wood as well, and actually need a high-heat wood fire to start the coal burning. Smith sells the hard, anthracite coal, which burns without smoke and comes from the eastern ...

Plus, if you do have a stove, finding coal isn’t easy since few stores stock the 40-pound bags of anthracite coal in sizes known as rice, pea and nut, or deliver it to homes with furnaces.

WILKES-BARRE, Pa. (AP) — This year marks the 250th anniversary of anthracite in the hard coal region of Pennsylvania. While the industry has hit an all-time low in mining and production ...

Nearly 130,000 homes in the U.S. still burn coal for heat. Despite decades of decline and concerns about climate change, companies in the coal home-heating business are optimistic about the future.