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After Two Decades of Controversy, the EPA Uses Its ‘Veto’ Power to Kill the Pebble Mine in Southwest Alaska

The Biden administration’s move protects the world’s most abundant sockeye salmon run and a vital commercial fishery. Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy, a Republican, said the veto “sets a dangerous precedent.”

By Max Graham

An employee of Northern Dynasty Mines Inc. mans a drilling rig in the Pebble Mine East site near the village of Iliamna, Alaska. Credit: Luis Sinco/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images
Tiehm's buckwheat flower. Credit: Patrick Donnelly/Center for Biological Diversity

A Rare Plant Got Endangered Species Protection This Week, but Already Faces Threats to Its Habitat

By Wyatt Myskow

An anthracite coal mine in Maizeville, Pennsylvania on March 3, 2022. Credit: Ed Jones/AFP via Getty Images

Biden’s Been in Office for More Than 500 Days. He Still Hasn’t Appointed a Top Official to Oversee Coal Mine Reclamation

By James Bruggers

Thacker Pass, in the far northern reaches of Nevada, permits have been approved for a massive lithium mine, drawing protest from the local Indigenous population, ranchers, and environmentalists. Credit: Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

Powering Electric Cars: the Race to Mine Lithium in America’s Backyard

By Aime Williams, The Financial Times

A view shows nickel sheets at Kola Mining and Metallurgical Company, a unit of Russia's metals and mining company Nornickel, in the town of Monchegorsk in the Murmansk region on February 25, 2021. Credit: Kirill Kudryavtsev/AFP via Getty Images

Russia’s War in Ukraine Reveals a Risk for the EV Future: Price Shocks in Precious Metals

By Marianne Lavelle

The Lavendar Pit at Copper Queen Mine is seen in Bisbee, Arizona on July 24, 2020. Credit: Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images

As the US Rushes After the Minerals for the Energy Transition, a 150-Year-Old Law Allows Mining Companies Free Rein on Public Lands

By Jim Robbins

Aerial view of Brazilian mining multinational Vale at the Corrego do Feijao mine in Brumadinho, Belo Horizonte's metropolitan region, Minas Gerais state, Brazil, on Dec. 17, 2019. Credit: Douglas Magno/AFP via Getty Images

Backed by International Investors, Mining Companies Line Up to Expand in or Near the Amazon’s Indigenous Territories

By Katie Surma

View from the observation tower of rising mist from the rain forest canopy in the rain forest near La Selva Lodge near Coca, Ecuador. Credit: Wolfgang Kaehler/LightRocket via Getty Images

Ecuador’s High Court Affirms Constitutional Protections for the Rights of Nature in a Landmark Decision

By Katie Surma

Vasily Ryabinin scales an overlook on the Taimyr Peninsula in June 2020, with the sprawl of the Norilsk Nickel complex visible below. He toured the area with Russian journalists shortly after resigning from his job with Russia's environmental protection agency due to his concern over what he saw as its failure to fully investigate the spill of 6.5 million gallons of diesel fuel into Arctic waterways last year. Credit: Yuri Kozyrev, NOOR

‘A Trash Heap for Our Children’: How Norilsk, in the Russian Arctic, Became One of the Most Polluted Places on Earth

By Marianne Lavelle

People dance together at the protest camp at Thacker Pass, Nevada on Sunday, Sept. 12, 2021. Earlier in the day People of Red Mountain organized a remembrance of a massacre of indigenous people nearby on the same date in 1865. Credit: Spenser Heaps

Plans To Dig the Biggest Lithium Mine in the US Face Mounting Opposition

By Cayte Bosler

Grand Canyon rafters often make a stop at the confluence of the Little Colorado and Colorado’s rivers. Credit: Judy Fahys/InsideClimate News

New Trump Nuclear Plan Favors Uranium Mining Bordering the Grand Canyon

By Judy Fahys

A truck carries ore excavated from the Mary River iron mine across the frozen landscape of Canada's Baffin Island. Baffinland Iron Mines Corporation wants to more than quadruple the mine's production, starting in 2025. Credit: Baffinland Media Centre

On Baffin Island in the Fragile Canadian Arctic, an Iron Ore Mine Spews Black Carbon

By Kristoffer Tigue

Elk graze the grounds at Hatfield Knob in Campbell County inside the North Cumberland Wildlife Management Area, just a few miles away from where Triple H has petitioned to mine. Credit: Saul Young/Knoxville News Sentinel

Trump May Approve Strip Mining on Tennessee Protected Land

By JAMES BRUGGERS, INSIDECLIMATE NEWS, AND TYLER WHETSTONE, KNOXVILLE NEWS SENTINEL

The Cedar Mesa Ruins, were within the Bears Ears National Monument created by President Obama in 2016, but were removed by President Trump in 2017. Now, the Trump administration’s recently finalized guidelines allow drilling, mining and development on 2 m

Drilling, Mining Boom Possible But Unlikely Under Trump’s Final Plan for Southern Utah Lands

By Judy Fahys

Aerial view of a frac sand mining operation in Wisconsin

Sand Mining Emerges as New Frack Danger

By Anna Driver, Reuters

The Suncor Millennium Mine near the Athabasca River

Carcinogens Linked to Increased Oil Sands Mining

By Lisa Song, SolveClimate News

Wind turbine assembly

DOE Wants Green Technologies Without Rare Earths

By Maria Gallucci, SolveClimate News

U.S. May Open Up Grand Canyon to Uranium Mining

Felicity Carus, Guardian

Mining Boom in Mongolia

by Brian Awehali, Earth Island Journal

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