Mining

Prospecting May Bring Controversy To Minnesota Forest

AP | STEVE KARNOWSKI | Posted 05.30.2012

Read More: Video, Minnesota Forest, Superior National Forest Minnesota, Mining, Mn Mining, Superior National Forest Prospecting, Environment, Superior National Forest Mn, Superior National Forest Mining, Ap, Minnesota Mining, Superior National Forest, Green News

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The U.S. Forest Service said Tuesday it has completed a final environmental impact statement on the effects of prospecting for co...

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Otero Mesa: Search for Rare Earth Threatens a Desert Bio-Gem

Rocky Kistner | Posted 05.18.2012

Read More: Rare Earth, Mining, New Mexico, Biogem, Otero Mesa, Minerals, Green News

An essential mineral ingredient used in a variety of electronics could be a death knell for a pristine part of a wild New Mexico desert grassland coveted by environmentalists -- and considered sacred to Native Americans.

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Virtual Exploration, Virtually Everywhere

Jim Bell | Posted 05.14.2012

Read More: Space, Oceanography, Robotics, Space Exploration, Mining, Uavs, Telerobotics, Science News

What surprised me in the symposium, however, is how much telerobotics and telepresence is being used today, right here on our own planet, enabling people to survey, explore, mine, and even kill from great distances.

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WATCH: Stewart Calls 'Bullsh*t' On Asteroid Mining

The Huffington Post | Christine Friar | Posted 04.26.2012

Read More: Video, Daily Show Bullshit or No Bullshit, Daily Show, Jon Stewart, Funny Videos, Mining, Space, Neil Degrasse Tyson Bullshit or No Bullshit, Asteroid Mining, Bullshit or No Bullshit, Outer Space, The Daily Show, Neil Degrasse Tyson, Comedy News

This week, a collective of independently wealthy people, including two Google execs and "Titanic" director James Cameron, announced the launch of a co...

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Unrest in Indonesia's Mines: Local Chaos and Global Injustice

Michelle Chen | Posted 04.09.2012

Read More: East Timor, Indonesia, Mining, Southeast Asia, Globalization, Gold, Asia, Coal, Freeport McMoRan, West Papua, Indonesia Mining, World News

Work recently resumed in the Grasberg mine of the Freeport McMoran Copper & Gold, but the suffering continues while officials and multinationals maneuver to manage Southeast Asia's resource curse.

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Pebble Mine: No Means No!

Joel Reynolds | Posted 04.03.2012

Read More: Alaska, Fisheries, Mining, Video, Rio Tinto, Pebble Partnership, Clean Water Act, Anglo American, Pebble Mine, Bristol Bay, Green News

The Pebble Mine is a reckless project, overwhelmingly opposed by the people who live there -- and one that the world cannot afford.

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Mine Safety Chief On Upper Big Branch: 'We Could've Done Better'

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 03.27.2012

Read More: Msha, Dirty Coal, Video, Congress, Big Coal, Mining, West Virginia, Joseph-Main, West Virginia Mine Disaster, Coal, Upper Big Branch Mine, Upper Big Branch Mine Disaster, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- The head of the Mine Safety and Health Administration told lawmakers Tuesday on Capitol Hill that his agency wasn't responsible for the ...

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Australian Senate Approves New Tax

AP | ROD McGUIRK | Posted 05.19.2012

Read More: Australia Coal, Energy, Australia Mining Tax, Australia, Australia Energy, Australia Mining, Australia Julia Gillard, Mining, Julia Gillard, Australia Senate, Mining Tax, Coal, Video, Green News

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — The Australian government pushed a new 30 percent tax on big mining companies through Parliament on Monday but faces an u...

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Dying for Work

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 05.12.2012

Every day, 12 workers die on the job in America -- often because a corporation has defied regulations or ignored standard safety procedures. Many more die prematurely from work exposure to toxic materials.

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Coal Mining Company Settles Lawsuit Over Deadly Flood

AP | DYLAN LOVAN | Posted 05.09.2012

Read More: Harless Creek Flood, Energy, Kentucky Flood, Video, Cambrian Coal Lawsuit, Mountaintop Removal, Mountaintop Removal Mining, Mining, Coal, Coal Mining, Green News

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A Kentucky mining company settled a lawsuit Friday that blamed mountaintop mining for stoking a 2010 flood that ravaged a tin...

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Feds Announce Charges For Deadly Utah Mine Collapse

AP | JOSH LOFTIN | Posted 05.09.2012

Read More: Energy, Video, Utah Mine Disaster, Crandall Canyon Mine Disaster, Crandall Canyon Mine Charges, Mining, Genwal Resources, Utah Mine Collapse, Ap, Crandall Canyon Mine Collapse, Green News

CHICAGO (AP) — Ex-Ill. Gov. Rod Blagojevich arrives at Colo. prison to begin 14-year sentence for corruption...

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Feds Go After Kentucky Mine

AP | Posted 03.08.2012

Read More: Video, D&C Mining Corp., U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration, Safety Laws, Harlan County, Interest, Kentucky Mines, Mining, Federal Court, Mining Industry, Business News

LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Federal mining officials are suing a southeastern Kentucky mine for more than $1.6 million owed in delinquent fines for violations ...

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Report: Inspectors Missed Problems Before WV Mine Accident

AP | VICKI SMITH | Posted 05.06.2012

Read More: Energy, Msha, Video, Upper Big Branch Coal Mine, Mining, West Virginia, Coal, Coal Mining, Upper Big Branch Mine, Upper Big Branch Mine Disaster, Ap, Green News

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) — Federal inspectors either missed problems at West Virginia's Upper Big Branch mine or failed to inspect the areas where the...

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Mining Compromise 'Makes A Bad Idea Worse'

AP | TODD RICHMOND | Posted 05.06.2012

Read More: Energy, Video, Wisconsin Iron Mines, Mining, Wisconsin Mining Compromise, Dale Schultz, Wisconsin Mining, Iron Mining Compromise, Wisconsin Iron Mining, Dale Schultz Wisconsin, Green News

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Republicans unveiled more revisions to a contentious bill that would reform the state's iron mining laws Monday, but ...

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Lone Miner's Death Tells 'Story Of The Appalachian Coal Miner'

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 03.02.2012

Read More: Kentucky Miner, Richard Coots Miner, Mining Disaster, Richard Coots Kentucky, Owlco Mine, Owlco Energy, Workers, Owlco Safety, Owlco, Big Coal, Workplace Deaths, Owlco Energy Mine, Coal, Msha, Appalachia, Kentucky Mine, Labor, Mining, Richard Coots Owlco, Kentucky, Appalachian Mine, Richard Coots Jr, Mine Safety and Health Administration, Coal Mining, Richard Coots, Tony Oppegard, Green News

Richard Coots, Jr. wasn’t killed in a massive explosion, and the accident that claimed him barely made a ripple of news beyond Eastern Kentucky. He ...

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'Green News Report' - February 23, 2012

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 04.24.2012

Read More: Green Jobs, Fracking, Epa, Renewable Energy, Regulation, Innovation, Green News Report, Pollution, Green Energy, Climate Scientists, Video, 2012 Presidential Election, Fossil Fuels, Big Oil, Climate Science, Gop, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change, Global Warming Deniers, Air Pollution, Global Warming, Energy, Wisconsin, Toxic Water, Rick Santorum, Environmentalism, Barack Obama, Water Pollution, BRAD BLOG, Mining, Green News, Sustainability, BP Oil Spill, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Hydraulic Fracturing, Republicans, Gas Prices, Selenium, Canada, Tar Sands, Don Blankenship, Massey Energy, Stephen Harper, Fukushima, Subsidies, Japan, Upper Big Branch Mine, Green News

TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport. The 'GNR' is also now available on your cell phone via Stitcher Radio's mobile app!. IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: GOP presi...

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'Green News Report' - February 21, 2012

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 04.22.2012

Read More: Green Jobs, Fracking, Epa, Renewable Energy, Regulation, Innovation, Green News Report, Pollution, Green Energy, Climate Scientists, Video, 2012 Presidential Election, Big Oil, Fossil Fuels, Climate Science, Gop, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change, Global Warming Deniers, Air Pollution, Global Warming, Energy, Rick Santorum, Environmentalism, Barack Obama, Energy Efficiency, BRAD BLOG, Green News, Sustainability, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Hydraulic Fracturing, Republicans, Iran, Dioxin, Peter Gleick, Drought, Dow Chemical, Israel, Toxic Water, Wisconsin, Solar Energy; Subsidies, Heartland Institute, Water Pollution, Mining, BP Oil Spill, Extreme Weather, Green News

TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport. The 'GNR' is also now available on your cell phone via Stitcher Radio's mobile app!. IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Gas price...

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Hundreds Rally Against Surface Mining

AP | Posted 02.15.2012

Read More: Surface Mining, Kentucky State Capitol, Video, Kentucky Surface Mining, Mining, I Love Mountains Day, Environment, Appalachian Mountains, Kentucky, Kentucky Mining, Kentucky Surface Mining Rally, Green News

FRANKFORT, Ky. -- Hundreds of citizen activists, Appalachian residents and environmentalists rallied at the Kentucky Capitol to call for an end to mou...

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Stars Come Out for Wirikuta

Tracy L. Barnett | Posted 04.10.2012

Read More: Wixarika, Huichol, Real De Catorce, Wirikuta, Mining, Johannes Neurath, Cerro Quemado, Paul Liffman, Native American Church, Latin America, Mexico, Indigenous Rights, Peyote, Lakota, World News

Some 800 Wixarika people -- 18 busloads -- are gathering in the desert below are expected to descend on this tiny town within an hour and will begin the trek up the sacred mountain of Cerro Quemado, the place where they believe the sun was born.

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Message From the Gods: Unite to Defend the Birthplace of the Sun

Tracy L. Barnett | Posted 04.10.2012

Read More: Cerro Quemado, Paul Liffman, Native American Church, Huichol, Real De Catorce, Latin America, Lakota, Mexico, Johannes Neurath, Mining, Wixarika, Indigenous Rights, Wirikuta, Peyote, World News

They came by the hundreds from the Western Sierra Madre, native Wixarika or Huichol people on a spiritual quest, seeking to consult with the spirits of their ancestors. This year, however, would be vastly different from years past.

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West Va. Gov Wants To Drug Test Miners

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 02.07.2012

Read More: Massey Energy, Video, Drug Testing Coal Miners, Mining, West Virginia, Drug Testing, Drugs, Mine Safety, Coal, Earl Ray Tomblin, Upper Big Branch Mine, Upper Big Branch Mine Disaster, Green News

Drug testing for miners has become a crucial component of the safety legislation under consideration in West Virginia in the wake of the Upper Big Bra...

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WATCH: Josh Fox On Why He Was Arrested

HuffingtonPost.com | Joanna Zelman | Posted 02.06.2012

Read More: Energy, Josh Fox, Fracking, Josh Fox Fracking, Josh Fox Republicans, Gasland, Gasland 2, Gasland Director, Josh Fox Arrest, Gasland Sequel, Video, Mining, Drilling, Josh Fox Obama, Natural Gas, Josh Fox Arrested, Josh Fox Gasland, Green News

Documentary filmmaker Josh Fox and his crew on Wednesday walked into a congressional hearing on hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking," a controversial n...

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'Green News Report' - January 26, 2012

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 03.27.2012

Read More: Fracking, Economy, West Virginia, Epa, Renewable Energy, Regulation, Conservation, Green News Report, Pollution, Coal, Pipeline, Canada, Tar Sands, Video, 2012 Presidential Election, Oil Spill, Sotu, Fossil Fuels, Big Oil, Climate Science, Gop, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Global Warming Deniers, Air Pollution, State of the Union, Global Warming, Energy, Environmentalism, Subsidies, State Department, Barack Obama, BRAD BLOG, Keystone XL Pipeline, Green News, Food, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Hydraulic Fracturing, China, Republicans, Chevy Volt, Mitch Daniels, Navy, Green Energy, Military, California Air Resources Board, Wetlands, Nanotechnology, Dept of Defense, Energy Efficiency, Mississippi River, Mining, Conocophillips, Green News

TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport. The 'GNR' is also now available on your cell phone via Stitcher Radio's mobile app!. IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Drill-Bab...

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Drilling for Transparency

Karin Lissakers | Posted 03.27.2012

Read More: Transparency, Energy, Dodd-Frank, Mining, Sotu, Securities and Exchange Commission, Gulf Oil Spill, Oil Companies, Barack Obama, Offshore Drilling, Business News

Obama's State of the Union promise to open more offshore oil and gas fields and support natural gas development lacks one ingredient if the public is to receive the full economic benefits.

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Mining Ban: Good for the Grand Canyon, but Not for El Salvador?

Sarah Anderson | Posted 03.12.2012

Read More: Grand Canyon, Free Trade, Peru, Nafta, Mining, Cafta, Investors, Green News

We should urge the Obama administration to take an important stand in support of social and environmental stewardship by rewriting our trade rules to put people and the planet first.

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