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Killing you legally The Bush administration proposes to make illegal MTR mining legal	David Roberts	24 Aug 2007	Gristmill

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

No Peaking Bush administration eases restrictions on mountaintop-removal mining		24 Aug 2007	Daily Grist
No Peaking Bush administration eases restrictions on mountaintop-removal mining The Bush administration has given a big thumbs-up to mountaintop-removal mining, the practice of blasting the peaks off of mountains and dumping the rubble into watersheds and valleys. A proposed rule issued today will exempt mining waste from an inconsistently interpreted 1983 rule that disallows mining activity within 100 feet of ...
Topics: mining, news, United States, water pollution (all these topics)

Mountaintop removal mining: Lonely opposition The Branhams' mining permit protests	Grist	23 Aug 2007	Gristmill

Topics: environmental justice, mining, West Virginia (all these topics)

Mountaintop removal mining: No respect for the hollow More from W. Va.	Grist	22 Aug 2007	Gristmill

Topics: mining, West Virginia (all these topics)

Murray: Miner deaths hard on me Interview with Utah mine owner	David Roberts	22 Aug 2007	Gristmill

Topics: mining, Utah (all these topics)

Mountaintop removal mining: MTR from the sky The latest in W. Va. adventures	Grist	21 Aug 2007	Gristmill

Topics: mining, West Virginia (all these topics)

Mountaintop removal mining: Larry Gibson, gatekeeper A report from W. Va.	Grist	20 Aug 2007	Gristmill

Topics: mining, West Virginia (all these topics)

With Safety Like This, Who Needs Danger? Rescue effort continues in collapsed Utah mine called 'safe' by owner		07 Aug 2007	Daily Grist
With Safety Like This, Who Needs Danger? Rescue effort continues in collapsed Utah mine called "safe" by owner The search for survivors continues at a coal mine in central Utah that collapsed early Monday. Four miners escaped the implosion -- which was so strong it registered magnitude 3.9 at a nearby seismic station -- but six others were trapped about three miles from the Crandall Canyon Mine entrance, some 1 ...
Topics: coal, energy, mining, news, Utah (all these topics)

Is It Worm in Here? Deep-water mining could be bad news for seafloor organisms, say experts		21 May 2007	Daily Grist
Is It Worm in Here? Deep-water mining could be bad news for seafloor organisms, say experts Pop quiz: Would deep-water mining harm fragile ecosystems? An article in Science gives the shocking answer: Vancouver-based Nautilus Minerals' pioneering plan to dig out gold, copper, silver, and zinc from hydrothermal vents in the South Pacific would likely create unpleasantness for the hardy organisms who live there. While Nautilus aims to ...
Topics: business, mining, news (all these topics)

In Eighteen Hundred Seventy-Two, Ulysses Made the Greenies Blue Legislation introduced to overhaul ancient mining law		17 May 2007	Daily Grist
In Eighteen Hundred Seventy-Two, Ulysses Made the Greenies Blue Legislation introduced to overhaul ancient mining law In 1872, President Ulysses S. Grant signed a mining-regulation law -- and while resource extraction has changed significantly since then, the rules haven't. Now Rep. Nick Rahall (D-W.Va.) is seeking to revamp what he calls "the Jurassic Park of all federal laws," introducing ...
Topics: Congress, energy, Harry Reid, mining, news, politics (all these topics)

Mountaintop removal and clean water: Kinda at odds DC lobbying effort May 12-16	Erik Hoffner	11 May 2007	Gristmill

Topics: coal, Congress, energy, environmental justice, legislation, lobbying, mining, politics, United Nations (all these topics)

Good As Gold -- No, Better Dan Peplow and Sarah Augustine, activists for indigenous health in Suriname, answer readers' questions		11 May 2007	InterActivist
Could you say more about the indigenous people of Suriname with whom you have been working so closely? How many different groups or ethnicities are there? In what kinds of environments do they live? How do they relate to the plants and animals of their environment, which are as threatened as they are by the toxic pollution caused by the mining operations? ...
Topics: health, InterActivist, interview, mining, Suriname (all these topics)

Reid gears up to defend stupid mining law Sigh	David Roberts	10 May 2007	Gristmill

Topics: coal, Congress, energy, Harry Reid, lobbying, mining (all these topics)

Bien Suriname Dan Peplow and Sarah Augustine, activists for indigenous health in Suriname, answer Grist's questions		07 May 2007	InterActivist
Dan Peplow and Sarah Augustine. With what environmental organization are you affiliated? We are co-directors of the Suriname Indigenous Health Fund. What does your organization do? Our organization supplies technology and support to indigenous communities that are impacted by gold mining. The communities we work with live in the rainforest deep in the interior of Surina ...
Topics: health, InterActivist, interview, mining, Suriname (all these topics)

Nevada Mined Newmont Mining Co. will undergo social-responsibility review		27 Apr 2007	Daily Grist
Nevada Mined Newmont Mining Co. will undergo social-responsibility review It wasn't enough to be acquitted of pollutey wrongdoing in Indonesia; the world's largest gold-mining firm is begging for more green cred. This week, 91.6 percent of Newmont Mining Co.'s shareholders approved an independent review of the company's environmental and social impacts worldwide. Along with the high-profile trial in Indones ...
Topics: business, greening biz operations, mining, news (all these topics)

Mine Your Business Newmont Mining Co. acquitted of wrongdoing in Indonesia		25 Apr 2007	Daily Grist
Mine Your Business Newmont Mining Co. acquitted of wrongdoing in Indonesia Yesterday, an Indonesian court found Newmont Mining Co. not guilty of polluting Indonesia's Buyat Bay with toxic runoff from a now-defunct gold mine, ending a trial that had riled up eco-justice advocates for nearly two years. Judge Ridwan Damanik declared that Newmont's piping of arsenic and mercury into the bay did not pollute the wate ...
Topics: business, Indonesia, mercury, mining, news (all these topics)

He Does Not Dig Gold Ts. Munkhbayar fights destructive mining in Mongolia	Michelle Nijhuis	24 Apr 2007	Main Dish
Ts. Munkhbayar. Photo: Goldman Environmental Prize. Born into a family of Mongolian herders, Ts. Munkhbayar remembers when the livestock was healthy, the water was clean, and kids went ice skating on the nearby river. "I had a very happy childhood," he says. In the early 1990s, a gold-mining boom overshadowed all that; because of widespread hydraulic mining, which uses high-pressur ...
Topics: energy, heroes, mining, Mongolia (all these topics)

Coal bed methane drilling: Not just a western issue Alabama's Bankhead forest next?	Erik Hoffner	13 Apr 2007	Gristmill

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

Her Side of the Mountain Mary Anne Hitt, director of Appalachian Voices, answers readers' questions		30 Mar 2007	InterActivist
What is Appalachian Voices doing to promote renewable energy and conservation to get the U.S. off its fossil-fuel addiction? ��-- Kristen Sykes, Asbury, N.J. Mary Anne Hitt, Appalachian Voices. While stopping mountaintop-removal coal mining does not require transitioning away from the use of coal, a sensible plan for America's energy security and stability does. Not only is coal the ...
Topics: coal, energy, InterActivist, interview, mining (all these topics)

Hitting Back Mary Anne Hitt, director of Appalachian Voices, answers Grist's questions		26 Mar 2007	InterActivist
Mary Anne Hitt. What's your job title? I'm the executive director of Appalachian Voices. What does your organization do? We bring people together to solve the big environmental problems facing the central and southern Appalachian Mountains -- mountaintop-removal coal mining, air pollution, and the loss of our native forests. What are you working on at the moment? Photo: iLoveMountains.org We recent ...
Topics: coal, energy, InterActivist, interview, mining (all these topics)

Unseamly Behavior Federal judge blocks West Virginia coal-mining permits		26 Mar 2007	Daily Grist
Unseamly Behavior Federal judge blocks West Virginia coal-mining permits Foes of mountaintop-removal mining got a break late Friday when a federal judge blocked four permits for mines in West Virginia. The permits, issued by the Army Corps of Engineers, had said it was A-OK for Massey Energy's subsidiaries to fill valleys with the dirt and other detritus left over from shearing off moun ...
Topics: Army Corps of Engineers, coal, energy, mining, news, West Virginia (all these topics)

Somewhere, Stalin Is Chuckling Siberian mine disaster kills more than 100, rescuers search for survivors		20 Mar 2007	Daily Grist
Somewhere, Stalin Is Chuckling Siberian mine disaster kills more than 100, rescuers search for survivors The world may be addicted to oil, but it's coal that's doing us in. An explosion at a Siberian coal mine on Monday killed 106 workers, and rescuers were still searching for a handful of missing people today. While 93 lucky bastards escaped with their lives, the accident -- caused by a build-up of methane at a depth ...
Topics: coal, energy, mining, news, Russia (all these topics)

If there is a mine at the bottom of the ocean, and no one is there to see it, does it still have an environmental impact? Wired reports on undersea mining plans	Chris Schults	16 Mar 2007	Gristmill

Topics: mining, oceans (all these topics)

Sealed With a Miss Federal inspectors find hundreds of coal-mine safety violations		26 Feb 2007	Daily Grist
Sealed With a Miss Federal inspectors find hundreds of coal-mine safety violations Coal miners across the country are working in unsafe conditions, according to the U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration. As if spending the day in methane-filled caverns wasn't dangerous enough, inspectors have found hundreds of unsafe seals, the walls built to block off mined-out areas. Two major accidents last year -- the Sago, W.V., explosion th ...
Topics: energy, mining, news (all these topics)

Blood diamonds are for never Movie, music bring awareness to conflict gems	Sarah van Schagen	08 Dec 2006	Gristmill

Topics: fashion, green living, Leonardo DiCaprio, mining (all these topics)

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