Inescapably – and in the face of a rapidly warming planet – the transition from a fossil fuel-based world to one that relies primarily on renewable energy must also involve greater investment in the mining of rare earth minerals, experts told Congress Tuesday.
Read moreSeventh Circuit judges pressed the Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday to explain how the Menominee Tribe could navigate the complex intersection of federal and state law to challenge a mine’s application for a permit allowing runoff into a river that forms the border between Wisconsin and Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.
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In the sleepy and remote village of Dillingham in southwestern Alaska, there has historically been tension between the indigenous populations, who take a subsistence approach to catching salmon, and commercial fishermen, who take in half a billion annually by trawling one of the world’s most productive fisheries at Bristol Bay.
Read moreRabbitbrush bloomed in abundance, casting a soft yellow sheen that extended out from both sides of the desert roadway. To the north, the carpet of wildflowers was broken only by distant hills along the horizon that wall in the Paria River Valley. The super bloom gave testament to the glut of precipitation that fell in Utah’s high desert this past winter.
Read moreNearly 300 people, most of them Navajo, demand damages in a federal complaint against Weston Solutions, Gold King Mines, the United States and others from the Aug. 5, 2015, spill of toxic water from the Gold King Mine in New Mexico.
Read moreA federal judge blocked a controversial plan for a copper mine south of Tucson, Arizona, halting a decade-long process for a Canadian company that hopes to extract copper from a valuable deposit in the Santa Rita Mountains.
Read moreAfter the Trump administration gave hardrock-mining companies a pass on proving their financial ability to tackle cleanup costs in the event of a spill, the D.C. Circuit shot down a challenge Friday to force the regulatory change.
Read moreWildearth Guardians brought a federal complaint over a 1,720-acre expansion of the nearly 20,000-acre West Elk Coal Mine on the Western Slope — 13,000 acres of it in national forest — into the previously undisturbed Sunset Roadless Area.
Read moreA coal company that waited hours to alert regulators after one of its miners was temporarily crushed between heavy machines struggled Tuesday to contest a citation at the Third Circuit.
Read moreUpholding a law that prohibits uranium mining in Virginia, the divided Supreme Court ruled Monday that federal law does not pre-empt the state ban.
Read moreThe Trump administration announced its strategy to bolster U.S. mineral mining operations, calling for quicker permit processes and greater private sector access to public lands.
Read moreThree Native American tribes have called for a halt to preliminary work on a planned copper mine in southern Arizona’s Santa Rita Mountains.
Read moreSouthern Coal Corp. and 22 others owe a total of $4.8 million for mine-safety violations, the United States says in federal complaint.
Read moreA federal judge found that El Paso Natural Gas is responsible for 65% of past and future response costs for the cleanup of 19 uranium mines near Cameron, Ariz., and the federal government is responsible for 35% of it.
Read moreUtah Physicians for a Healthy Environment sued the Department of the Interior for approving a lease to mine coal near Bryce Canyon National Park.
Read moreA big blue diamond weighing more than 20 carats has been unveiled in Botswana, where the gem was discovered.
Read moreRepresenting a client bankrupted by Venezuela, a Gibson Dunn lawyer urged the Third Circuit on Monday to sign off an order attaching Venezuela’s shares in its state-owned oil company.
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