EPA Won’t Have To Hold Mining Companies Responsible For Cleanup Costs
In a win for the mining industry, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Friday upheld an Environmental Protect …
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Forest Service retirees speak out on Twin Metals Mine
Nearly three dozen former Superior National Forest resource professionals have signed their names to a letter urging top officials in the Trump Agriculture and Interior …
Mining Proposal For Skagit River Headwaters Sparks Outcry
Nine members of Washington state’s congressional delegation, all Democrats, called Wednesday for the U.S. Department of State to intervene in a simmering dispute with Canada over a …
Can Minnesota’s Boundary Waters Be Saved From Mining?
Outdoor enthusiasts associate Northeast Minnesota with the Boundary Waters, the country’s most-popular wilderness area. But to local folks it’s known as the Iron Range, so …
Bear Witness: A Year in the Wilderness
Dave and Amy Freeman’s Year in the Wilderness is a short film that follows their year spent in the Boundary Waters Wilderness. Bear Witness shares …
A Prelude to Pebble?
The Trump administration has rubber-stamped the Rosemont Ranch mine, an open-pit Copper-Silver-Molybdenum mine in the Santa Rita Mountains of Arizona, about 30 miles southeast of …
Imperial Metals applies for permit for exploratory mining in headwaters of Skagit River
Imperial Metals, the same operation that brought you the Mount Polly mine disaster, has applied for an exploratory mining permit in the headwaters of the …
Mining has polluted the headwaters of more than 40 percent of Western watersheds
Now consider the Pebble Project. Firms mining metals dug up and dumped nearly 2 billion pounds of toxic waste in 2017. Experts say there’s not …
Montana officials say proposed copper mine won’t harm Smith River tributary
Ruh-roh! Montana officials say a new environmental analysis has found that the proposed Black Butte Copper Project near White Sulphur Springs would cause no harm …
50M gallons of polluted water pours daily from US mine sites
Every day many millions of gallons of water loaded with arsenic, lead and other toxic metals flow from some of the most contaminated mining sites …