Mining

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EPA: Uranium From Polluted British Petroleum Mine Found In Nevada Water Wells

AP | SCOTT SONNER | Posted 11.21.2009 | Green

Read More: Bp, Yerington, Us Bureau of Land Management, Mining, Epa, Atlantic Richfield, Uranium, British Petroleum, Nevada, Yerington Paiute Tribe, Nevada Department Of, Uranium Mine, Hydreology, Uranium Mines, New Mexico, Green News

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...

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Bomb Appalachia (and Face the Music)

Michael Gould-Wartofsky | Posted 11.09.2009 | Green

Read More: Clearcutting, Coal, Center for Public Integrity, West Virginia, Campaign, Coal Industry, Climate, Grassroots, Coal River Mountain, Climate Change, Virginia, Coal Lobby, Mountaintop Removal, Unions, Environmentalism, JP Morgan Chase, American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity, Wto, Mother Jones, Labor, Clean Energy, Congress, Green, Global Warming, Government, Mountains, Epa, Harlan County, Mines, Bush Administration, Blair Mountain, Tennessee, Climate Action Partnership, President Obama, Washington, Obama, Coal Czar, Bush, Environment, Environmental Protection Agency, Naacp, Appalachia, Workers, Climate Justice, Office of Surface Mining, Civil Disobedience, Kentucky, Henry Waxman, Forests, Department of the Interior, Dirty Coal, Green Jobs, Wall Street, Astroturfing, Coal Mining, Duke Energy, Green News, Mining, Water, Clean Coal, Osr, Appalachian Mountains, Activism, Protest, Massey Energy, Green News

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.

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The True Impact of Coal Mining

Bruce Nilles | Posted 10.30.2009 | Green

Read More: Environment, Coal, Powder River Basin, Mining, Dirty Coal, Coal River Mountain, Sierra Club, Clean Coal, Green News

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.

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Mapping Congo's Militarized Mines

David Sullivan | Posted 10.30.2009 | World

Read More: Jim McDermott, Conflict Minerals, Department of Defense, Democratic Republic of Congo, Mining, Defense Authorization Act, Africa, United Nations, Electronics, State Department, War Wire, World News

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.

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Tiffany's Looks To Africa As Diamond Industry Shifts

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...

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Big Stakes at Pebble Mine: NRDC Launches Bristol Bay BioGem Campaign

Taryn Kiekow | Posted 10.21.2009 | Green

Read More: Seals, Salmon, Bristolbay, Biogems, Whales, Mining, Bristol Bay Salmon Population, Ecosystem, Environment, Pebble Mine, Alaska Mining, Cook Inlet Beluga Whale, Bristol Bay Mining, Ecosystem Protection, Green News

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.

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Activists Put Congo's Conflict Minerals on the Map

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.

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Misleading "Energy Sprawl" Study Pollutes Climate Debate

Matt Wasson | Posted 12.01.2009 | Green

Read More: Energy Sprawl, Wind Power, hr2454, Climate, Mining, Mountaintop Removal, Nuclear, Coal, Solar Power, Green Energy, Impact, Green News

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.

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EPA Throws Up Hands As Mercury Puts 100,000 People At Risk In California

AP | JASON DEAREN | Posted 11.18.2009 | Green

Read More: Epa, Water Contamination, Mercury Mining, Mercury in Fish, California, Mining, Mercury, Environment, Mercury Poisoning, Green News

NEW IDRIA, Calif. — Abandoned mercury mines throughout central California's rugged coastal mountains are polluting the state's major waterways, ...

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EPA Halts Mountaintop Removal Projects

Yahoo! News | Renee Schoof, McClatchy Newspapers | Posted 11.14.2009 | Green

Read More: West Viginia, Mountaintop Removal, Tennessee, Mining, Ohio, Epa Mountaintop Removal, Epa, Environment, Kentucky, Green News

WASHINGTON -- The Environmental Protection Agency announced Friday that 79 applications for surface coal-mine permits in Kentucky , West Virginia , Oh...

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America's Most Toxic Town (VIDEO)

Posted 11.08.2009 | Green

Read More: Lead Poisoning, Toxic Town, Most Toxic Town in America, Mining, Picher-Oklahoma, Environment, Video, Green News

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 ...

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Could China Hold the World's Clean Technology Hostage?

Alex Pasternack | Posted 10.17.2009 | Green

Read More: Wind Power, Beijing, Toyota, Mining, Hybrid Cars, Clean Technology, Wind Turbines, China, Green Technology, Green News

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.

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Take This Mine And Shove It: India Fights Coal, As Tribe Fights Mountaintop Removal

Jeff Biggers | Posted 09.18.2009 | Green

Read More: London, Dirty Coal, Appalachia, Native People, Survival, Vedanta, Mining, Big Coal, Tribal People, Arundhati Roy, Green, India, Mountaintop Removal, British, Green Energy, Green News

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.

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You Couldn't Vote, Laura -- But Barack Could Still Be President

Carl Pope | Posted 09.14.2009 | Green

Read More: Mining Royalties, Constitution, 1872 Mining Act, Mining Act of 1872, Mining, Surface-Mining-Act, Green News

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."

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The New Blood Diamonds

John Prendergast | Posted 09.03.2009 | World

Read More: Cell Phones, u.s. Foreign Policy, Ipod, Sexual Violence, Consumerism, Rape, Mining, War, Africa, Hillary Clinton, Congo, World News

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.

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Grand Canyon Uranium Mining Halted

AP | JOAN LOWY and FELICIA FONSECA | Posted 08.20.2009 | Green

Read More: Grand Canyon, Grand Canyon Mining, Ken Salazar, Mining, Uranium Mining, Green News

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — Thousands of mining claims dot 1 million acres near the Grand Canyon, and Interior Secretary Ken Salazar says his department ...

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Green News Report - July 16, 2009 (Audio)

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 08.16.2009 | Green

Read More: Cap and Trade, Green Jobs, Public Lands, John Kerry, Mining, Swine Flu, Sarah Palin, Green News, Royalties, Climate Change, Green News Report, Pollution, Green News

Is this the end of the 'free ride' for mining companies?

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Cleaning Up After Clementine

Carl Pope | Posted 08.15.2009 | Green

Read More: Ken Salazar, Mining, Clean Water Act, Green News

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.

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Supreme Court OKs Dumping Mining Waste In Lakes

AP | H. JOSEF HEBERT | Posted 07.24.2009 | Green

Read More: Supreme Court, Lower Slate Lake, Gold Mining Company, Dump, Gold Mining, Supreme Court Ruling, Mining, Coeur Alaska Inc, Clean Water Act, Lakes, Green News

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...

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Protests Over Amazon Escalate In Peru

AP | FRANKLIN BRICENO | Posted 07.10.2009 | Green

Read More: Protests, Peru, Amazon, Land, Oil, Gas, Indians, Amazon Indians, Oil Drilling, Logging, Mining, Large-Scale Farming, Alan Garcia, Bagua, Green News

BAGUA, Peru — President Alan Garcia accused Amazon Indians of "barbarity" Sunday in the killing of 22 members of a paramilitary police force sen...

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Cell Phones Contribute to Rape, War in DRC

Craig and Marc Kielburger | Posted 07.06.2009 | World

Read More: Cell Phones, Marc Kielburger, Rape, Democratic Republic of Congo, Sexual Assault, Craig Kielburger, Mining, Canada, Congo, Toronto-Canada, World News

"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...

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West Virginia Activists Lock Themselves to Coal Mining Trucks

Dave Cooper | Posted 06.26.2009 | Green

Read More: Mountain Justice, Mountaintop Removal, Strip Mining, Coal, Climate Change, Mining, Kayford, Green News

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.

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