EPA: Uranium From Polluted British Petroleum Mine Found In Nevada Water Wells
YERINGTON, Nev. — Peggy Pauly lives in a robin-egg blue, two-story house not far from acres of onion fields that make the northern Nevada air sm...
YERINGTON, Nev. — Peggy Pauly lives in a robin-egg blue, two-story house not far from acres of onion fields that make the northern Nevada air sm...
Michael Gould-Wartofsky | Posted 11.09.2009 | Green
Theirs is a coast-to-coast campaign to save Appalachia's mountains and streams -- and Appalachians' homes, jobs, and culture -- from the devastating coal mining practice known as mountaintop removal.
Bruce Nilles | Posted 10.30.2009 | Green
Blasting has begun on Coal River Mountain in West Virginia, site of a long battle between Massey Energy and local residents who want it to be a site for wind turbines instead of coal mining.
David Sullivan | Posted 10.30.2009 | World
The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2010 has been making news because of all the things left out of it, including billions of dollars in cuts to expensive weapons systems.
Wall Street Journal | By VANESSA O'CONNELL | Posted 10.26.2009 | Business
In a windowless factory in this African village, Tiffany is teaching more than 80 workers to transform raw diamonds into gems for Tiffany engagement r...
Taryn Kiekow | Posted 10.21.2009 | Green
Although the foreign mining partnership claims that it will "respect all of Alaska's natural resources," the stakes are too great to roll the dice.
David Sullivan | Posted 10.08.2009 | World
We've all heard of Conflict Diamonds by now. But a troubling, less visible crisis haunts objects we use everyday. Here is everything you need to know about the next big issue: Conflict Minerals.
Matt Wasson | Posted 12.01.2009 | Green
The concept of "energy sprawl," now associated with such a distorted picture of the impacts of wind, solar, coal and nuclear technologies, adds nothing but confusion and false impressions to the climate debate.
AP | JASON DEAREN | Posted 11.18.2009 | Green
NEW IDRIA, Calif. — Abandoned mercury mines throughout central California's rugged coastal mountains are polluting the state's major waterways, ...
Yahoo! News | Renee Schoof, McClatchy Newspapers | Posted 11.14.2009 | Green
WASHINGTON -- The Environmental Protection Agency announced Friday that 79 applications for surface coal-mine permits in Kentucky , West Virginia , Oh...
Posted 11.08.2009 | Green
Picher, Oklahoma is so toxic as a result of lead and zinc mining that the government started a buyout program four years ago to get residents to move ...
Alex Pasternack | Posted 10.17.2009 | Green
China could tighten its control over metals essential for a wide array of green technologies, raising the specter of a unilateral OPEC for rare earth metals.
Jeff Biggers | Posted 09.18.2009 | Green
With the blessing of the Indian Supreme Court, Vedanta plans to launch its own version of Appalachia-style mountaintop removal on the Niyamgiri mountain, which the Dongria Kondh tribe worships as a god.
Carl Pope | Posted 09.14.2009 | Green
The head of the Northwest Mining Association is upset that Interior Secretary Salazar wants to reform the The General Mining Act of 1872, saying "I don't hear anyone calling it out of date."
John Prendergast | Posted 09.03.2009 | World
Being held at gunpoint in one of the most dangerous war zones in the world was not our plan, but we were digging into links between the illicit mining of Congo's conflict minerals and a war.
AP | JOAN LOWY and FELICIA FONSECA | Posted 08.20.2009 | Green
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — Thousands of mining claims dot 1 million acres near the Grand Canyon, and Interior Secretary Ken Salazar says his department ...
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 08.16.2009 | Green
Is this the end of the 'free ride' for mining companies?
Carl Pope | Posted 08.15.2009 | Green
Mining's had a century-and-a-half exemption from having to keep up with environmental standards. Now Interior Secretary Salazar has announced that he wants reform.
AP | H. JOSEF HEBERT | Posted 07.24.2009 | Green
WASHINGTON — A mining company was given the go-ahead by the Supreme Court on Monday to dump waste from an Alaskan gold mine into a nearby 23-acr...
AP | FRANKLIN BRICENO | Posted 07.10.2009 | Green
BAGUA, Peru — President Alan Garcia accused Amazon Indians of "barbarity" Sunday in the killing of 22 members of a paramilitary police force sen...
Craig and Marc Kielburger | Posted 07.06.2009 | World
"I'm here" -- two little words that sat in the inbox of one of our cell phones as we prepared to write this column. This particular message came fro...
Dave Cooper | Posted 06.26.2009 | Green
Coal companies blast off the tops of biologically diverse, densely forested mountains, dumping the rock and rubble into the mountain streams that provide drinking water for millions of people.
AP | TIM HUBER | Posted 05.11.2009 | Green
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is objecting to three more Appalachian surface mining permits, saying the operation...
AP | JAY LINDSAY | Posted 05.02.2009 | Green
BOSTON — There's gold in that thar sea floor. Silver, copper, zinc and lead, too. The problem is, it's a mile or two underwater and encased in m...
AP | CHRISTOPHER BODEEN | Posted 05.02.2009 | Green
BEIJING — Position open: Mayor of Chinese coal mining city notorious for frequent fatal accidents and heavy pollution. Prospective candidates: N...
AP | SCOTT SONNER | Posted 11.21.2009 | Green