For the second time in less than a year, a federal judge has thrown up a major roadblock to a new copper mine near the Arizona-Mexico border, ruling that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and U.S. Forest Service didn’t adequately assess the environmental impact of the planned Rosemont Mine.
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The Trump administration finalized plans Thursday to shrink two national monuments in Utah while opening up recently freed portions to possible natural resource extraction and grazing.
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A Seventh Circuit panel ruled Monday that federal law offers no recourse for a Wisconsin tribe challenging a permit which would allow runoff from a Michigan sulfide mine into a river on the border between Wisconsin and Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, leaving the tribe to fight administratively in Michigan.
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Still digging itself out from a $105 million jury verdict, Sacramento County on Friday defended its decision to clamp down on a longstanding riverside gravel mine and asked the Ninth Circuit to drill into the mammoth judgment.
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The Minnesota Court of Appeals set back a controversial mining project in the northern part of the state Monday when it ordered officials to hold hearings on three of the mine’s permits.
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The world’s longest swinging pedestrian bridge is about to join Kentucky and Virginia as part of a former-coal country grant program.
Read moreA pristine wilderness where Minnesotans go to fish, hunt and snowshoe is at risk of contamination from acid mine drainage, environmentalists and business owners warned a federal judge in Washington on Friday.
Read moreThe Sierra Club sued the Department of the Interior and the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement for information whether they consulted with the Fish & Wildlife Service or the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, as required, before issuing permits for “highly destructive” surface mining.
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A controversial mining project near northeastern Minnesota’s Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness took a step closer to becoming a reality Wednesday after Twin Metals submitted its proposal to state and federal agencies for an underground copper-nickel mine.
Read moreA federal class action claims Apple, Alphabet, Microsoft, Dell, Tesla, et al. knowingly profit from brutal abuse of young children in the Democratic Republic of Congo to mine cobalt for lithium-ion batteries used in their electronic devices.
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The Supreme Court appeared concerned Tuesday about the practical consequences of siding with a group of Montana landowners who live on land contaminated by arsenic and lead and want a more aggressive cleanup of the Superfund site than what has been approved.
Read moreThe Montana Environmental Information Center, et al. sued Interior Secretary David Bernhardt in federal court for approving a 6,500-acre expansion of the Rosebud coal strip mine in Montana.
Read moreA pistachio farm and a ranch sued a Southern California water district, a mining company and a dairy in Kern County Court, in a fight over the area’s depleted groundwater.
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The House of Representatives on Wednesday passed two bills to protect a combined 1.3 million acres of land in Arizona and New Mexico from new mining and drilling operations.
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A federal judge is considering whether to let a Colorado coal mine operate as planned in January 2020 or bar operations until methane flaring equipment is approved by a federal agency and installed, a delay that could cost 365 miners their jobs ahead of the holiday season.
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A plea from uranium mining companies and nuclear power plant operators for tax breaks and other federal financial boosts is going to President Donald Trump as his administration studies reviving the uranium industry in the name of national security.
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A proposed open-pit gold and copper mine approved by the federal government faces considerable legal pushback from Alaskan environmental and fishing groups, claiming the project would taint the watershed for local wildlife, including starving the headwaters that sustain the world’s largest wild salmon run.
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