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.
Jim Bell | Posted 05.14.2012
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.
The Huffington Post | Christine Friar | Posted 04.26.2012
This week, a collective of independently wealthy people, including two Google execs and "Titanic" director James Cameron, announced the launch of a co...
Michelle Chen | Posted 04.09.2012
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.
Joel Reynolds | Posted 04.03.2012
The Pebble Mine is a reckless project, overwhelmingly opposed by the people who live there -- and one that the world cannot afford.
HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 03.27.2012
WASHINGTON -- The head of the Mine Safety and Health Administration told lawmakers Tuesday on Capitol Hill that his agency wasn't responsible for the ...
AP | ROD McGUIRK | Posted 05.19.2012
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — The Australian government pushed a new 30 percent tax on big mining companies through Parliament on Monday but faces an u...
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.
AP | DYLAN LOVAN | Posted 05.09.2012
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A Kentucky mining company settled a lawsuit Friday that blamed mountaintop mining for stoking a 2010 flood that ravaged a tin...
AP | JOSH LOFTIN | Posted 05.09.2012
CHICAGO (AP) — Ex-Ill. Gov. Rod Blagojevich arrives at Colo. prison to begin 14-year sentence for corruption...
AP | Posted 03.08.2012
LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Federal mining officials are suing a southeastern Kentucky mine for more than $1.6 million owed in delinquent fines for violations ...
AP | VICKI SMITH | Posted 05.06.2012
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...
AP | TODD RICHMOND | Posted 05.06.2012
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Republicans unveiled more revisions to a contentious bill that would reform the state's iron mining laws Monday, but ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 03.02.2012
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 ...
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 04.24.2012
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Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 04.22.2012
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AP | Posted 02.15.2012
FRANKFORT, Ky. -- Hundreds of citizen activists, Appalachian residents and environmentalists rallied at the Kentucky Capitol to call for an end to mou...
Tracy L. Barnett | Posted 04.10.2012
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.
Tracy L. Barnett | Posted 04.10.2012
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.
HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 02.07.2012
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...
HuffingtonPost.com | Joanna Zelman | Posted 02.06.2012
Documentary filmmaker Josh Fox and his crew on Wednesday walked into a congressional hearing on hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking," a controversial n...
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 03.27.2012
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Karin Lissakers | Posted 03.27.2012
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.
Sarah Anderson | Posted 03.12.2012
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.
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 03.11.2012
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Rocky Kistner | Posted 05.18.2012