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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)

Massey Business Coal company penalized for Clean Water Act violations		17 Jan 2008	News
Posted at 5:16 PM on 17 Jan 2008 Massey Energy Co., the nation's fourth-largest coal producer, has agreed to a $30 million settlement with the U.S. EPA over allegations of Clean Water Act violations. Massey was accused of polluting streams and waterways in West Virginia and Kentucky with the detritus of mountaintop-removal mining on at least 4,500 occasions between 2000 and 2006. The company must pay $20 million in civil pena ...
Topics: coal, energy, litigation, mining, news, US EPA, water pollution (all these topics)

Playing Mined Games Green groups seek to overturn mine exemption from ESA reviews		17 Jan 2008	News
Posted at 8:53 AM on 17 Jan 2008 Four green groups and two state agencies have filed a petition with federal wildlife and mining agencies seeking to change the long-standing policy of exempting mountaintop-removal mining from specific Endangered Species Act reviews. In 1996, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service decided that mountaintop-removal mining wouldn't unduly imperil threatened species if mines followed othe ...
Topics: litigation, mining, news, United States (all these topics)

Dangerous Mines U.S. House passes mine-safety legislation; Bush threatens veto		17 Jan 2008	News
Posted at 6:18 AM on 17 Jan 2008 The U.S. House of Representatives passed new mine-safety legislation yesterday aimed at improving dangerous working conditions such as those that may have contributed to the Crandall Canyon Mine collapse that killed six workers and three rescue personnel last year. The bill allows independent investigations when accidents kill more than one miner, grants the Mine Safety and Health Adm ...
Topics: legislation, mining, news, politics, United States, US House of Representatives (all these topics)

Long, Long Sago Two years after Sago Mine explosion, many mine-safety standards still not implemented		02 Jan 2008	News
Posted at 4:57 PM on 02 Jan 2008 In January 2006, 12 coal miners were killed when an explosion in West Virginia's Sago Mine trapped them underground. In response, Congress passed legislation strengthening mine safety standards. Two years later, many of the standards have yet to be implemented, to the frustration of the United Mine Workers union. Says union president Cecil Roberts, "[The fe ...
Topics: coal, energy, mining, news (all these topics)

Pebble Without a Cause? Controversial Alaska gold mine tiptoes forward		26 Dec 2007	News
Posted at 3:09 PM on 26 Dec 2007 If Alaska's proposed Pebble Gold Mine goes forward, it could be North America's largest mine. It would necessitate the construction of the biggest dam in the world -- right at the headwaters of the world's largest sockeye salmon fishery. Environmentalists and commercial fishers are up in arms about the project; mining companies Northern Dynasty Minerals and Anglo-American are beginning explor ...
Topics: Alaska, dams, fishing, mining, news (all these topics)

Cyanide Cynthia, world's biggest Scrooge Mining CEO loves gold, hates fish	Glenn Hurowitz	26 Dec 2007	Gristmill

Topics: Alaska, business, dams, fishing, mining, wildlife (all these topics)

Everything Old Is Newmont Again Mining giant Newmont cleared in Indonesian pollution suit, again		18 Dec 2007	News
Posted at 6:45 AM on 18 Dec 2007 An Indonesian court cleared a subsidiary of Denver-based Newmont Mining Corp. of wrongdoing in a lawsuit filed against the company by an environmental group. The group, Walhi, had sought cleanup and an apology from Newmont's subsidiary for dumping mine waste from a now-closed gold mine directly into Buyat Bay, allegedly killing fish and sickening area residents with ...
Topics: business, Indonesia, litigation, mining, news, toxics (all these topics)

Global warming and the Holocaust Is the analogy between climate change and Hitler's atrocities appropriate?	David Roberts	26 Nov 2007	Gristmill

Topics: coal, energy, James Hansen, mining (all these topics)

WTF happened to a 'new direction'? Obama condemns mining reform package as too hard on the mining industry	David Roberts	08 Nov 2007	Gristmill

Topics: Barack Obama, biofuels, elections, energy, ethanol, mining, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

This Rocks! U.S. House passes groundbreaking mining bill		01 Nov 2007	News
Posted at 3:28 PM on 01 Nov 2007 The U.S. House of Representatives has, in a fit of sanity, voted to make mining companies pay royalties on minerals they dig up on public land. By a vote of 244-166, the House approved the Hardrock Mining and Reclamation Act, which would reform a 135-year-old law that President Ulysses S. Grant signed to encourage development in the West. Unchanged since 1872, it allows mining companies to buy land for as ...
Topics: legislation, mining, news, politics, progress, US House of Representatives (all these topics)

The rub on mining reform Will antiquated mining law's reform export devastation?	Erik Hoffner	27 Oct 2007	Gristmill

Topics: legislation, mercury, mining, politics, toxics (all these topics)

Act now! Major mining reform proposed	Jason D Scorse	27 Oct 2007	Gristmill

Topics: politics, legislation, mining (all these topics)

Your Place, or Mine? Mining-law reform bill could change rules for mines on public land		24 Oct 2007	News
Posted at 7:28 AM on 24 Oct 2007 Just 135 years after its enactment, environmentalists and fiscal conservatives may finally have a shot at reforming an antiquated U.S. law that lets mining companies dig up minerals and precious metals on public lands without paying royalties nor being responsible for post-dig cleanups. A bill to change the 1872 General Mining Law passed the House Natural Resources Committee ...
Topics: legislation, mining, news, United States (all these topics)

Drawing a Blanco Peruvian residents fed up with mining		21 Sep 2007	News
Posted at 5:13 PM on 21 Sep 2007 Big Mineral has made big investments in Peru, where the government has leased some 45,000 square miles of Andean highlands for mining. But Peruvians are getting fed up. When residents of a town called Rio Blanco took an unofficial vote on Monterrico Metals' plans for a $1.4 billion copper mine in their backyard, 95 percent voted against it, arguing that mining brings them polluted rivers instead of jobs and ...
Topics: mining, news, Peru (all these topics)

Fall From Grace Charges reinstated against company that allegedly exposed small town to asbestos		21 Sep 2007	News
Posted at 1:56 PM on 21 Sep 2007 The long-running legal battle over whether chemical company W.R. Grace knowingly exposed thousands of residents of Libby, Mont., to asbestos has taken an upswing: an appeals court has reinstated environmental and conspiracy charges against the company, which were thrown out by a federal judge last year. Next stop, trial; if convicted, Grace could be fined up to $280 ...
Topics: litigation, mining, Montana, news, toxics (all these topics)

Black Lung Is the New Black Rates of black lung disease double in a decade		14 Sep 2007	News
Posted at 5:01 PM on 14 Sep 2007 Rates of black lung disease have doubled in the last decade, according to the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. The disease, which is caused by inhaling coal dust, now occurs in almost 10 percent of coal miners who work 25 or more years underground, as opposed to about 4 percent a decade ago. Safety standards enacted in 1969 were supposed to prevent black lung altoget ...
Topics: coal, energy, health, mining, news (all these topics)

Getting the Shaft Western U.S. littered with abandoned mines		12 Sep 2007	News
Posted at 10:29 AM on 12 Sep 2007 Earlier this month, two sisters fell into a mine shaft in Arizona while riding an all-terrain vehicle. It was a terrible tragedy, but, unfortunately, not an unexpected one: an estimated 500,000 abandoned mines litter the U.S., mostly in the West. Even though the oldest mines were closed almost a century ago, many are still leaching heavy metals into groundwater -- according to one expert, 40 percent of ...
Topics: Colorado, mining, news (all these topics)

Mongabay highlights for July '07 (late edition) Certification-driven deforestation	biodiversivist	10 Sep 2007	Gristmill

Topics: deforestation, mining, rainforests, wildlife (all these topics)

Christians against coal mining Rev. Allen Johnson calls on churches to condemn mountaintop-removal mining	Grist	08 Sep 2007	Gristmill

Topics: coal, coal-to-liquid fuel, mining, politics, religion and spirituality, West Virginia (all these topics)

Moyers on MTR 'Bill Moyers Journal' on religious resistance to mountaintop-removal mining	Lisa Hymas	06 Sep 2007	Gristmill

Topics: West Virginia, TV, mining (all these topics)

Edwards & the mine workers union How does Edwards' union support mesh with his ambitious climate-change platform?	Brian Beutler	04 Sep 2007	Gristmill

Topics: coal, elections, energy, John Edwards, mining, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

Mountaintop removal mining: The waiting game MTR activists don't expect progress until the Bush administration is gone	Grist	25 Aug 2007	Gristmill

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

Dead coal: A live option Why does everyone assume that coal mining in Appalachia must continue?	David Roberts	25 Aug 2007	Gristmill

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

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