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Human rights attorney Alejandra Gonza (right) stands with Brenda Díaz Valencia, who is holding a photo of her father, Antonio Díaz Valencia, and his colleague Ricardo Arturo Lagunes Gasca, in Washington, D.C. on Oct. 3, 2024. The two men disappeared after criticizing mining practices in Mexico. Credit: Richard Pierrin/AFP via Getty Images

Defending Human Rights Is Dangerous. Defending Nature Makes It Even Riskier

By Katie Surma

Hector Denogean Sr. stands the Mammoth Miners Memorial in Southern Arizona. Denogean says he can’t support a new mine that may take more water out of the drying region. Credit: Wyatt Myskow/Inside Climate News

In Southern Arizona, Community Opposition to Mining Grows in Towns That Once Depended on the Industry

By Wyatt Myskow, Yana Kunichoff

An aerial view of Oak Flat in Arizona. Credit: EcoFlight

Oak Flat is Sacred to Western Apache. The Trump Administration Intends to Approve a Plan to Destroy It

By Wyatt Myskow

A grizzly bear, listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Acts, walks among pine trees in Yellowstone National Park. Credit: Jim Peaco/National Park Service

How the Trump Administration’s Interpretation of One Word—‘Harm’—Could Gut Habitat Protections for Endangered Species

By Kiley Price, Wyatt Myskow

Kathy Love, the Alabama Surface Mining Commission director, speaks at the agency’s meeting on Thursday in Jasper, Ala. Photo credit: Lee Hedgepeth/Inside Climate News

A Year After a Fatal Explosion, Alabama Extends Deadline for Coal Companies to Monitor Methane Gas Above Mines

By Lee Hedgepeth

Kerry Schwartz, a retired hydrogeology faculty member and water resources educator at the University of Arizona, holds up a small sample of water from the spring in Alum Gulch. Credit: Esther Frances/Inside Climate News

The Renewable Energy Transition Has Residents of a Small Arizona Town on Edge

By Esther Frances, Megija Medne and Phillip Powell

Kathy Love, director of the Alabama Surface Mining Commission, listens during a discussion highlighting the consequences of longwall coal mining at Oak Grove High School. Credit: Lee Hedgepeth/Inside Climate News

Federal Regulators Say An Alabama Coal Mine’s Plans May Violate Law, Leaving Citizens At Risk

By Lee Hedgepeth

The aftermath of a home explosion above Oak Grove Mine that killed W.M. Griffice in Adger, Ala. Credit: Lee Hedgepeth/Inside Climate News

Federal Regulators Waited 7 Months to Investigate a Deadly Home Explosion Above a Gassy Coal Mine. Residents Want Action

By James Bruggers, Lee Hedgepeth

Oak Grove residents including Clara Riley (left) and Lisa Lindsay (center) attend a meeting in central Alabama to discuss the consequences of longwall coal mining. Credit: Lee Hedgepeth/ Inside Climate News

In the First Community Meeting Since a Fatal Home Explosion, Residents Grill Alabama Regulators, Politicians Over Coal Mining Destruction

By Lee Hedgepeth

Apache Stronghold members and supporters stopped in Gallup, New Mexico, on Aug. 18. Credit: Noel Lyn Smith/Inside Climate News

Apache Group is Carrying a Petition to the Supreme Court to Stop a Mine on Land Sacred to the Tribe

By Noel Lyn Smith

The Griffice family's home that exploded in Adger is one of more than a hundred that Oak Grove Mine operators have said could be impacted by subsidence. Credit: Lee Hedgepeth/Inside Climate News

Alabama Coal Regulators Said They Didn’t Know Who’d Purchased a Mine Linked to a Fatal Home Explosion. It’s a Familiar Face

By Lee Hedgepeth

Melissa (left) and Steve Fry look out at the proposed mine site in the Galiuro Mountains outside Mammoth, Arizona, on March 14. Credit: Michael McKisson/Arizona Luminaria

Arizona Residents Fear What the State’s Mining Boom Will Do to Their Water

By Wyatt Myskow

At the Salton Sea in California, geothermal plants could soon also extract lithium from brine water contained deep in the ground. But local community members and environmentalists worry about the impacts the mining will have on local water supplies. Credit: EcoFlight

Lithium Critical to the Energy Transition Is Coming at the Expense of Water

By Wyatt Myskow

Sandy Bahr (center), director of Sierra Club's Grand Canyon Chapter, and Carletta Tilousi (right), member of the Havasupai Tribe, deliver a petition to the Arizona State Capitol Executive Tower in Phoenix on June 27. Credit: Noel Lyn Smith/Inside Climate News

Tribes and Environmentalists Press Arizona and Federal Officials to Stop Uranium Mining Near the Grand Canyon

By Noel Lyn Smith

As a Longwall Coal Mine Grows Beneath an Alabama Town, Neighbors of an Explosion Victim Feel Undermined and Unheard

By Lee Hedgepeth

Judge Reginald L. Jeter is presiding over the lawsuit filed by the Griffice family against the operator of Oak Grove mine. Credit: Lee Hedgepeth/Inside Climate News

Alabama Family to Add Wrongful Death Claim Against Mine Operator in Lawsuit Over Home Explosion

By Lee Hedgepeth

The grave of W.M. Griffice in the Oak Grove community of Jefferson County. Griffice died from injuries he suffered in a home explosion on March 8. Credit: Lee Hedgepeth/Inside Climate News

Alabama Coal Company Sued for a Home Explosion That Killed a Man Is Delinquent on Dozens of Penalties, Records Show

By Lee Hedgepeth, James Bruggers

Charlie Utterback stands in his kitchen, a mine map laid in front of him. He's worried he and his wife may eventually have to leave their home of 25 years because of damage caused by mining activity. Credit: Lee Hedgepeth/Inside Climate News

Alabama Mine Cited for 107 Federal Safety Violations Since Home Explosion Led to Grandfather’s Death, Grandson’s Injuries. Where Are State Officials?

By Lee Hedgepeth

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