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Coal is the enemy of the human race: Criminal negligence edition	David Roberts	09 May 2008	Gristmill

Topics: coal, energy, mining, Utah (all these topics)

It's Like a Glow-in-the-Dark Gold Rush Projected nuke-power renaissance spurs U.S. uranium-mining bonanza		05 May 2008	News
Posted at 8:15 AM on 05 May 2008 Due to the escalating price of uranium, a flurry of uranium-mining claims has been staked in the United States recently, with one of the greatest concentrations around the Grand Canyon in Arizona. On public lands within five miles of Grand Canyon National Park, there are now 1,100 uranium-mining claims, compared with just 10 in January 2003. One proposed ura ...
Topics: mining, news, nuclear power, toxics, United States (all these topics)

Notable quotable	David Roberts	28 Apr 2008	Gristmill

Topics: quotables, mining, Al Gore, energy, movies (all these topics)

Friday music blogging: Kathy Mattea Songs about the enemy of the human race	David Roberts	25 Apr 2008	Gristmill

Topics: coal, energy, mining, music (all these topics)

Haul From Grace W.R. Grace will finally pay Montana asbestos victims		08 Apr 2008	News
Posted at 3:01 PM on 08 Apr 2008 W.R. Grace & Co. has agreed to pay some $3 billion in cash and equity to settle lawsuits filed on behalf of people injured or killed by asbestos in the company's products. Grace operated a vermiculite mine near Libby, Mont., from 1963 to 1990, infamously coating the town with asbestos fibers. The company went bankrupt in 2001 after more than 100,000 asbestos-related claims were filed agains ...
Topics: business, litigation, mining, Montana, news, toxics (all these topics)

Deep Impact Uranium mine near Grand Canyon blocked		07 Apr 2008	News
Posted at 3:17 PM on 07 Apr 2008 A judge has blocked a British mining company's plan to build an exploratory uranium mine near the Grand Canyon. U.S. District Judge Mary Murguia agreed with litigious environmental groups that considering the location of the proposed mine and the risks associated with uranium mining, VANE Minerals Group should be required to conduct further environmental reviews before moving forward. sources:� Associated Press, ...
Topics: Arizona, energy, mining, news, public lands (all these topics)

Blankenship to reporter: 'You're liable to get shot' Massey wins W. Va. Supreme Court case; not doing so well in public relations	David Roberts	05 Apr 2008	Gristmill

Topics: business, coal, energy, mining, politics, shenanigans, West Virginia (all these topics)

File under: Sherlock, No sh*t	David Roberts	03 Apr 2008	Gristmill

Topics: coal, energy, health, mining, West Virginia (all these topics)

Stuff kills Chinese miners and our appetite for cheap crap	Tom Philpott	01 Apr 2008	Gristmill

Topics: China, climate, consumerism, economy, energy, green living, greenhouse-gas emissions, health, mining (all these topics)

Citizens and the Nation Navajo Nation will develop wind-power project		28 Mar 2008	News
Posted at 12:22 PM on 28 Mar 2008 Today we present the good, the bad, and the ugly of energy sources on Navajo land. The good: The Navajo Nation has formed a joint venture with Boston-based Citizens Energy Corp for a wind-power project on its vast Western reservation. The bad: The tribe continues to try to push through a controversial coal plant as well, and recently sued the U.S. EPA for not yet issuing an air permit. The ugl ...
Topics: coal, energy, mining, news, wind power (all these topics)

West Virginia, Mountain Drama Clinton and Obama boost coal in West Virginia		21 Mar 2008	News
Posted at 2:03 PM on 21 Mar 2008 Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama both did some coal-boosting while campaigning in West Virginia this week. Clinton told West Virginians she's always been in favor of "the cleanest coal possible," but that "coal fits in very importantly" to America's energy future. Asked about mountaintop-removal mining in a radio interview Wednesday, she hedged, saying she didn't &quo ...
Topics: Barack Obama, coal, economy, elections, energy, green jobs, Hillary Clinton, mining, news, politics, presidential race 08, West Virginia (all these topics)

Biggers to Obama: Free Appalachia from coal	David Roberts	21 Mar 2008	Gristmill

Topics: Barack Obama, coal, energy, Illinois, mining, politics (all these topics)

If I Were a Tibetan Man ... Protests in Tibet partially spurred by environmental resentment		18 Mar 2008	News
Posted at 4:41 PM on 18 Mar 2008 Violent protests that rose this week against Chinese rule in Tibet were spurred in part by anger about environmental destruction in the Himalayas, an area that Tibetans consider sacred. A Beijing-to-Lhasa railway opened by the Chinese in 2006 has provided easy access for Chinese miners to the pristine Tibetan highlands, where they've begun digging up copper, iron, lead, a ...
Topics: China, mining, news, Tibet, water conflicts (all these topics)

An Ugly Prospect Mining claims encroaching on Western population centers		12 Mar 2008	News
Posted at 12:50 PM on 12 Mar 2008 Mining claims on federal land in the West are coming increasingly close to urban areas, according to a new report from the Environmental Working Group. Thanks to a spike in the value of many minerals -- and antiquated U.S. mining law, which is highly prospector-friendly -- there are now 51,600 hardrock claims within five miles of Western population centers, nearly double the count in 2003. ...
Topics: Environmental Working Group, mining, news, placemaking, public lands (all these topics)

Massey incest Mining CEO so insinuated in W. Va. politics that they can't find judges to hear his case	David Roberts	20 Feb 2008	Gristmill

Topics: business, coal, energy, litigation, mining, politics, West Virginia (all these topics)

This is how dumb they think you are Walker/Cat's coal-happy ads in rural West Virginia	David Roberts	19 Feb 2008	Gristmill

Topics: coal, energy, messaging, mining, West Virginia (all these topics)

Cyanide Cynthia's flack attack Mining behemoth responds to Gristmill	Glenn Hurowitz	13 Feb 2008	Gristmill

Topics: Alaska, fishing, mining, toxics, water pollution, wildlife (all these topics)

Don't Be Mine Jewelers join campaign against proposed gold mine in Alaska		12 Feb 2008	News
Posted at 10:10 AM on 12 Feb 2008 Psst -- Valentine's Day is coming up. If you're now rushing out the door in a panic to buy your sweetie a trinket, keep this in mind: A group of prominent jewelers has joined a campaign against the Pebble Gold Mine, an environmental monstrosity that would be sited in Alaska's Bristol Bay, at the headwaters of the world's largest sockeye salmon run. Of 28 jewelers signed onto an enviro-spon ...
Topics: business, green living, green products, greenish companies, mining, news (all these topics)

Clean, safe nuclear power	David Roberts	07 Feb 2008	Gristmill

Topics: energy, mining, national parks, nuclear power (all these topics)

Curb Uranium Enthusiasm Exploratory uranium mine near Grand Canyon given go-ahead		07 Feb 2008	News
Posted at 7:22 AM on 07 Feb 2008 The U.S. Forest Service has granted a permit to a British mining company to drill exploratory uranium mines just miles from Grand Canyon National Park in northern Arizona and just three miles from a popular lookout. Officials in the county voted unanimously to try to stop the exploration, but their opposition has had little effect since the mine is on national forest land. An antiq ...
Topics: Arizona, mining, news, public lands, United States (all these topics)

Bill Clinton goes nuclear Former prez helped a rich guy get uranium-mining rights in Kazakhstan	Tom Philpott	31 Jan 2008	Gristmill

Topics: Bill Clinton, energy, Kazakhstan, mining, nuclear power (all these topics)

Wait, I thought you were issuing the fines! Mine safety agency realizes it hasn't been penalizing law-breakers	David Roberts	29 Jan 2008	Gristmill

Topics: mining (all these topics)

Dominion Power's dirty plans for Virginia Mike Tidwell speaks out in the WaPo against coal	Joseph Romm	28 Jan 2008	Gristmill

Topics: coal, energy, mining, Virginia (all these topics)

Will You Be Mining? Senate committee considers mining reform, not all that into it		25 Jan 2008	News
Posted at 5:13 PM on 25 Jan 2008 The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee held a hearing yesterday on mining reform, indicating unwillingness to overhaul 136-year-old U.S. mining policy anywhere near as much as would a House of Representatives bill passed this fall. Senators seemed generally open to creating a cleanup fund and placing royalties on new mines, but key lawmakers from Western states balked a ...
Topics: energy, legislation, mining, news, politics, US Senate (all these topics)

The good and the ugly Anti-coal activism news	Erik Hoffner	24 Jan 2008	Gristmill

Topics: coal, energy, grassroots activism, mining, politics, West Virginia (all these topics)

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