WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. House of Representatives is scheduled to vote today on a controversial proposal, backed by the Trump Administration, that would allow toxic sulfide mining in the watershed of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in Minnesota.
Franklin County, Illinois - Today, Prairie Rivers Network and Sierra Club Illinois are suing the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), a federally owned public power provider, to block the federal government from a massive expansion of coal mining in Illinois.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Yesterday, the Trump Administration moved forward a controversial mining proposal that directly threatens the future of Minnesota's Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness.
Washington, D.C - The Department of Government Efficiency, led by Elon Musk, has taken aim at its next government agency to shutter—the Office of Mine Safety and Health Administration.
In a landmark victory, the Sierra Club, the West Virginia Rivers Coalition, and the West Virginia Highlands Conservancy have reached an agreement with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to address the longstanding issue of ionic toxicity pollution in West Virginia streams caused by coal mining.
Conservation groups sued the U.S. Forest Service today for failing to protect streams in the Cherry River watershed from the harmful effects of coal hauling in the Monongahela National Forest.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the Biden Administration issued a new report on recommendations for updating the 1872 General Mining Law. Among the proposed reforms are increased Tribal consultation and engagement, a new leasing system, and incorporating climate change and environmental justice factors into the review of mining proposals.
This week, the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement issued a proposal to streamline processes for communities to report violations of federal coal mining laws, rolling back burdens the Trump Administration placed on mining communities.
WASHINGTON, DC – After over a decade of contestation, the EPA came to a Final Determination to protect Bristol Bay from Pebble Mine, a proposed copper and gold mine which would have wide-ranging, disastrous social, environmental, and economic impacts to lo
ELY, MN -- Today, Interior Secretary Deb Haaland signed a Public Land Order protecting the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCAW or Wilderness), Voyageurs National Park (VNP), and 1854 Treaty Area from sulfide-ore copper mining. The PLO, called a mineral withdrawal, bans toxic mining on 225,504 acres of Superior National Forest land in the watershed of the BWCAW and upstream of the Wilderness.
HELENA, MT — Late Friday, Billings Federal District Court Judge Susan Watters ruled that a massive expansion of the Rosebud coal strip-mine was approved illegally.
GUNNISON, CO — Conservation groups sued Colorado Gov. Jared Polis’s administration today over its failure to ensure the West Elk coal mine in western Colorado complies with state and federal clean air laws.