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Trump Administration Kills Rule Putting Conservation of Public Lands on Equal Footing With Resource Extraction

Biden’s Public Lands Rule ensured protecting or rehabilitating federal land would be as legitimate a use as mining, logging or drilling. Republicans and developers said it was a threat to the principle of “multiple use.”

By Wyatt Myskow

Inside the Indigenous Fight to Save Alaska’s Bristol Bay

Interview by Steve Curwood, Living on Earth

How the Rush to Mine the Metal of the Future Echoes America’s Colonial Past

By Johanna Hansel, Carla Samon Ros, Wyatt Myskow

What the US Could Learn About Mining on Indigenous Peoples’ Ancestral Lands

By Johanna Hansel, Carla Samon Ros, Wyatt Myskow

How We Tracked the Lithium Rush

By Johanna Hansel, Carla Samon Ros, Wyatt Myskow

Tribe and Environmentalists to Sue Feds Over Arizona Mine’s Impacts to Threatened Owls

By Wyatt Myskow

Two Years After Fatal Explosion, Alabama Mine Regulator ‘Letting the Fox Guard the Henhouse,’ Resident Says

By Lee Hedgepeth

Nation’s First Critical Minerals Mine Nears Approval in Biodiversity Hotspot

By Wyatt Myskow

New Lawsuit Aims to Halt Expansion of a Montana Coal Mine Blamed for Drying up the Land Above It

Story and photos by Jake Bolster

Arizona Launches Investigation into Proposed Critical Mineral Mine’s Contaminated Water Discharge

By Wyatt Myskow

When a Road Goes Wrong

By Georgina Gustin

How China Silences Environmental Reporters Beyond Its Borders

By Katie Surma

A Patch of Indigenous Land, Rich in Metals, Pits Prominent Miner and Native Owners Against Conservationists

By Max Graham, Northern Journal

Trump Names More Priority Minerals for U.S. Mining Revival

By Dylan Baddour

Western States Brace for a Uranium Boom as the Nation Looks to Recharge its Nuclear Power Industry

By Jake Bolster, Dylan Baddour, Wyatt Myskow

In a ‘Disheartening’ Era, the Nation’s Former Top Mining Regulator Speaks Out

By Lee Hedgepeth

A New Generation of Industries Emerges in Texas From Federal Push for Mining Revival

By Dylan Baddour

One of the First to Benefit From Trump’s Cuts to Environmental Review: a Nevada Gold Mine

By Wyatt Myskow

Chinese Miners Accused of Gold Pillage, Environmental Destruction in DRC

By Katie Surma