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Mine Every Mountain, Fill Every Stream Bush Admin. Rule Change Would Give a Boost to Mountaintop Mining		08 Jan 2004	Daily Grist
Mine Every Mountain, Fill Every Stream Bush Admin. Rule Change Would Give a Boost to Mountaintop Mining Mountaintop-removal mining is poised to get even easier thanks to a rule change proposed by the Bush administration yesterday. Significant chunks of Appalachia have already been devastated by this mining technique, which involves blasting off the t ...
Topics: Department of Interior, mining and drilling, politics, rivers and watersheds, water pollution, wildlife (all these topics)

NPR: One Thing Considered Pristine Petroleum Reserve in Alaska Opened to Oil Drilling		16 Dec 2003	Daily Grist
NPR: One Thing Considered Pristine Petroleum Reserve in Alaska Opened to Oil Drilling Try as it might, the Bush administration hasn't been able to get its hands on oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Perhaps to make itself feel better, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management is forging ahead with plans to permit aggressive oil drilling in large swaths of ...
Topics: Alaska, Bureau of Land Management, energy, mining and drilling, politics, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics)

His Park Is Bigger Than His Bite Chile Dedicates New Nature Park on Land Purchased by Rich American		09 Dec 2003	Daily Grist
His Park Is Bigger Than His Bite Chile Dedicates New Nature Park on Land Purchased by Rich American Some 738,000 acres of pristine rainforest in southern Chile will get official billing as a nature sanctuary today, thanks to a deal between U.S. tycoon Doug Tompkins and the Chilean government. Tompkins, cofounder of the sportswear company Esp ...
Topics: Chile, energy, international government agencies, land stewardship, mining and drilling, rainforests, Venezuela (all these topics)

Going Steady Methane Levels in Atmosphere Stabilize		25 Nov 2003	Daily Grist
Going Steady Methane Levels in Atmosphere Stabilize Here's a rarity: a possible climate-change success story. Atmospheric levels of methane, the second most important greenhouse gas after carbon dioxide, have stabilized following 200 years of growth caused primarily by human activities, according to new research by Dutch and American scientists published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters ...
Topics: air pollution, climate, James Hansen, mining and drilling (all these topics)

Slope on a Rope Bush Administration Opens Alaskan Land to Drilling		21 Nov 2003	Daily Grist
Slope on a Rope Bush Administration Opens Alaskan Land to Drilling Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge isn't on the oil-and-gas chopping block under the terms of the current behemoth energy bill, but the rest of the state isn't quite as lucky: The Bush administration will announce today that it plans to open 8.8 million acres of Ala ...
Topics: Alaska, Bureau of Land Management, Department of Interior, energy, mining and drilling, oceans, politics, wildlife (all these topics)

Gold Substandard Unlawful Gold Mining Threatens Brazilian Amazon		11 Nov 2003	Daily Grist
Gold Substandard Unlawful Gold Mining Threatens Brazilian Amazon Illegal gold mining in the rivers of Brazil's Amazon rainforest is on the upswing and could mean bad news for the environment. Thousands of poor small-scale miners, called garimpeiros, risk their lives to get at traces of gold at the bottom of rivers, sometimes employing equipment as basic as a garden hose for underwater ...
Topics: Amazon, Brazil, mining and drilling, pollution and waste, rainforests (all these topics)

I'm on the Hunt, I'm After You Bush Angers Hunters and Anglers by Promoting Resource Extraction		04 Nov 2003	Daily Grist
I'm on the Hunt, I'm After You Bush Angers Hunters and Anglers by Promoting Resource Extraction The Bush administration is ticking off many traditionally Republican hunters and anglers with its plans to encourage logging and oil and gas drilling in natural areas throughout the Western U.S. Last week, 450 U.S. gun clubs sent a petition to the U.S. F ...
Topics: Alaska, logging, mining and drilling, Montana, national forests, outdoor recreation, politics, wildlife (all these topics)

A Mine Is a Wonderful Thing to Waste Wisconsin Tribes End Mining Threat by Buying Site		30 Oct 2003	Daily Grist
A Mine Is a Wonderful Thing to Waste Wisconsin Tribes End Mining Threat by Buying Site In a stunning victory for environmentalists and Native Americans, Wisconsin's Sokaogon Mole Lake Chippewa and Forest County Potawatomi tribes announced Tuesday that they had bought the rights to a zinc and copper mine near Crandon, ending a 25-year controversy. The $16.5 million purchase was the surpr ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, mining and drilling, Wisconsin (all these topics)

Dump Struck Bush Lets Mining Companies Dump on More Public Land		13 Oct 2003	Daily Grist
Dump Struck Bush Lets Mining Companies Dump on More Public Land The Bush administration announced yet another environmental rollback on Friday, following a pattern of releasing such news right before a holiday weekend, presumably in hopes that it will slip past the public's notice. This time the beneficiaries are mining companies, which, thanks to a reinterpretation ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, mining and drilling, politics, toxics, wilderness (all these topics)

I'll Take Mongolia for $1,000, Alex Increased Mining in Mongolia Could Threaten Environment		03 Oct 2003	Daily Grist
I'll Take Mongolia for $1,000, Alex Increased Mining in Mongolia Could Threaten Environment Say "Mongolia" and most people think of yaks and yurts -- that is, if they think of anything. But these days, mining companies have a very different image of Mongolia: an untapped source of gold, copper, and other natural resources that can be exploited on the cheap and sold to neighboring China. In the last two years, mining ...
Topics: mining and drilling, Mongolia (all these topics)

Enemy Mine II Malaysian Mining Industry Is Getting a Second Wind		26 Sep 2003	Daily Grist
Enemy Mine II Malaysian Mining Industry Is Getting a Second Wind Twenty years after a glut in the global tin market sent the Malaysia mining industry into a freefall, the country's miners are lobbying for a second chance -- this time, with coal. Recently, prospectors in Malaysia found nearly 237 million tons of new coal reserves. That's good news for the country's economy, but bad news for th ...
Topics: business, energy, Malaysia, mining and drilling, wilderness (all these topics)

Last Scoundrels of Refuge Republicans Push for Oil Drilling in the Arctic Refuge -- Again		22 Sep 2003	Daily Grist
Last Scoundrels of Refuge Republicans Push for Oil Drilling in the Arctic Refuge -- Again It's the story that never dies: Republicans are once again plotting to open up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska to oil and gas drilling, this time by adding a provision to a major energy bill that is now being hammered out in a congressional conference committee. Most Democ ...
Topics: Alaska, energy, mining and drilling, political groups, politics, United States (all these topics)

The Coast in the Machine Bush Pushes for Offshore Oil Drilling in Alaska		15 Sep 2003	Daily Grist
The Coast in the Machine Bush Pushes for Offshore Oil Drilling in Alaska The Bush administration is moving aggressively to open Alaska's coastal waters to oil exploration -- a campaign that is not getting nearly as much public scrutiny as efforts to drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The administration plans to offer eight oil and gas lea ...
Topics: Alaska, commercial and industry organizations, energy, mining and drilling, oceans, politics, wildlife (all these topics)

Miner Threat Mine in Montana Could Finish Off a Grizzly Population		09 Sep 2003	Daily Grist
Miner Threat Mine in Montana Could Finish Off a Grizzly Population A copper and silver mine planned for the edge of a wilderness area in Montana could push a small, local population of grizzly bears toward extinction, environmentalists are warning. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service gave the green light for the mine to be built o ...
Topics: environmental non-government organizations, mining and drilling, Montana, US Fish and Wildlife Service, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics)

License to Drill GOP Energy Bill Would Do a Big Favor for Halliburton		08 Sep 2003	Daily Grist
License to Drill GOP Energy Bill Would Do a Big Favor for Halliburton A measure in a big Republican-backed energy bill would exempt from federal regulation a natural-gas-drilling procedure refined by Halliburton Co., the oil and gas services company previously headed by Vice President Dick Cheney. The process, called hydraulic fracturing, is used widely in Western states and invo ...
Topics: business, mining and drilling, political groups, politics, water pollution (all these topics)

For the Shell of It Shell Won't Drill at U.N. World Heritage Sites		02 Sep 2003	Daily Grist
For the Shell of It Shell Won't Drill at U.N. World Heritage Sites Royal Dutch/Shell, one of the world's biggest oil companies, has pledged not to explore or drill for oil or gas on U.N.-designated World Heritage sites. A week before Shell made its announcement, the International Council on Mining and Metals, which represents the world's 15 largest mining companies, made a similar ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, mining and drilling, United Nations (all these topics)

Peruvian Gold Peruvian Natural Gas Project Denied Funding		29 Aug 2003	Daily Grist
Peruvian Gold Peruvian Natural Gas Project Denied Funding In a blow for two Texas energy companies, a huge Peruvian natural-gas project was denied funding yesterday because of concerns about the likely impact on a marine preserve, a rainforest, and indigenous people in the Amazon Basin. In a 2-to-1 vote, the U.S. Export-Import ...
Topics: Amazon, commercial and industry organizations, mining and drilling, Peru, politics, rainforests, water bodies and marine life (all these topics)

Vermiculite at the End of the Tunnel Company Ordered to Pay for Cleanup of Montana Town		28 Aug 2003	Daily Grist
Vermiculite at the End of the Tunnel Company Ordered to Pay for Cleanup of Montana Town In the largest trial judgment awarded in the history of the Superfund law, a federal judge yesterday ordered W.R. Grace and Co. to repay the $54.5 million the federal government spent cleaning up asbestos contamination in the town of Libby, Mont. The company and its subsidiary had already agreed to pay ...
Topics: health, mining and drilling, Montana, pollution and waste, toxics (all these topics)

Read Between the Pipelines Huge Energy Project on Russian Island Could Wreak Environmental Havoc		26 Aug 2003	Daily Grist
Read Between the Pipelines Huge Energy Project on Russian Island Could Wreak Environmental Havoc Conservationists are warning that plans to build the world's largest energy project -- a massive pipeline and three oil-drilling platforms on and around the Russian island of Sakhalin, just north of Japan -- could mean environmental disaster. T ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, mining and drilling, oceans, Russia, water bodies and marine life, wildlife (all these topics)

Going Coastal Bush Administration Rewrites Rules on Coastal Control		21 Aug 2003	Daily Grist
Going Coastal Bush Administration Rewrites Rules on Coastal Control When it comes to offshore oil drilling, the Bush administration lost the battle but may well win the war. Earlier this year, a federal judge affirmed California's right to review all offshore development plans, putting an end to efforts by the Bush administration to drill for oil in the waters off the Golden State. Now, the administration is quietly rewriting ...
Topics: mining and drilling, politics (all these topics)

Nafta-shocks Thwarted by Environmental Rules, Mining Company Sues Under NAFTA		20 Aug 2003	Daily Grist
Nafta-shocks Thwarted by Environmental Rules, Mining Company Sues Under NAFTA Critics have long said the North American Free Trade Agreement spells trouble for the environment. Now, mining company Glamis Gold is poised to prove them right: It plans to use an obscure provision of the treaty to challenge California's strict environmental laws. For years, the company, which is owned by a Canadian-based multinational, has bee ...
Topics: globalization, mining and drilling (all these topics)

Zuni Side Up Zuni Tribe Member Pablo Padilla Talks About Beating Back a Strip Mine		07 Aug 2003	Daily Grist

Topics: lakes, mining and drilling, New Mexico (all these topics)

Power to the Pueblo Enviros Rejoice as Utility Drops Plan for Strip Mine in N.M.		05 Aug 2003	Daily Grist
Power to the Pueblo Enviros Rejoice as Utility Drops Plan for Strip Mine in N.M. After a bitter 20-year fight, enviros and members of the Zuni Pueblo tribe had cause to celebrate yesterday, when an Arizona utility abandoned plans to build a large coal strip mine and railroad near a salt lake in western New Mexico that the Native Americans hold sacred. Most members of New Mexico's congressional delegation wrote to fed ...
Topics: lakes, mining and drilling, New Mexico (all these topics)

Grace Under Pressure		02 Jul 2003	Daily Grist

Topics: health, mining and drilling, Montana, toxics (all these topics)

Grace Under Pressure A review of Libby, Montana	Michelle Nijhuis	02 Jul 2003	Arts and Minds
It's never been easy to make a living in Libby, Mont. Citizens in this town of 12,000, tucked into the dense, damp conifer forests of northwestern Montana, have long scraped by on seasonal logging jobs and other sporadic work. So in the 1920s, when local entrepreneur Edward Alley discovered that a nearby vermiculite deposit yielded an efficient, lightweight insulation and fireproofing material, Libbyites were thrille ...
Topics: mining and drilling, Montana, toxics (all these topics)

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