Gold Mining Has Devastated The Peruvian Amazon
Nearly 80 percent of the people in the Madre de Dios region of Peru have elevated levels of mercury. The post Gold Mining Has Devastated The Peruvian Amazon appeared first on ThinkProgress.
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Conservationists in Utah, however, immediately rejected the bill as a nonstarter. The post New Utah Lands Bill Includes Massive Gifts To The Cliven Bundy Land Seizure Movement appeared first on...
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Gold Mining Has Devastated The Peruvian Amazon
When Meraldo Umiña moved to the Madre De Dios region of Peru in 1983, the toxic gold rush that’s destroyed swaths of Amazon rainforest there was in its infancy. There were no laws regulating informal...
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West Virginia governor’s company cited in coal mining death
A mining operation owned by West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice (D) was cited for six safety violations following the death of a worker in February, according to the Charleston Gazette-Mail. West Virginia...
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Trump’s EPA wants to give a massive mining project in Alaska another chance
The volume of toxic waste produced from the smallest mine proposed at the Pebble Mine project in the Bristol Bay watershed of Alaska would be enough to fill a professional football stadium more than...
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The foreign miners bent on destroying the salmon industry have an inside line...
Days before announcing he would cave to a foreign mining company’s demands and re-open the possibility of mining copper alongside the waters where half the world’s salmon are caught, Environmental...
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EPA reverses course, opts to maintain protections for Alaska’s Bristol Bay...
In a surprise move, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt announced on Friday that the agency would no longer seek to reverse proposed Obama-era protections for Alaska’s Bristol...
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Trump Interior appointee caught buying stock in company that contracts with...
Doug Domenech, a top official at the Department of the Interior, worked as a political appointee at the agency during the George W. Bush administration when it was rife with corruption. The official is...
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Supreme Court asked to open public lands near the Grand Canyon to uranium mining
Mining groups are pushing the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn an Obama-era rule banning uranium mining near Grand Canyon National Park in the latest push to open up public lands to industry. On March 9,...
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Mining to begin in national monument eliminated by Trump
Canadian mining company, Glacier Lake Resources Inc., has announced that they have acquired rights to the “Colt Mesa” copper and cobalt mine located on lands eliminated from Grand Staircase-Escalante...
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Trump administration plan to mine near popular Minnesota wilderness area...
Environmental groups have filed a lawsuit against Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke in an effort to stop plans to allow mining near the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in northeastern Minnesota. The...
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Trump opens up popular Minnesota wilderness area to mining
Trump administration officials at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced in a quietly released statement on Thursday that 234,000 acres of land near a popular Minnesota wilderness area...
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More electric cars means more destructive mining
By Jeremy Deaton Climate warriors like to imagine a future where electric cars put oil companies out of business. Firms would stop injecting known carcinogens into the ground to break up the layer of...
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