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Australia to protect Barrier Reef by banning coal mine

By Associated PressAug 4, 2022
Havasu Falls, one of five Havasupai waterfalls deep in Arizona’s Havasu Canyon, an offshoot of Grand Canyon National Park but on lands administered by the Havasupai Indian Tribe. (Photo by Carol M. Highsmith | Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division)
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Havasupai tribe: Uranium mine threatens our existence

By Shondiin SilversmithJun 30, 2022
Chief Vincent Mann of the Turtle Clan of the Ramapough Lenape Nation speaks at a news conference in Ringwood, N.J., on Thursday, June 16, 2022, at which New Jersey officials announced litigation against Ford Motor Company, alleging the company contaminated tribal land by dumping paint sludge and other pollutants into a former iron mine. (Screenshot from news conference)
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New Jersey sues Ford over mining that tainted tribal land

By The Associated PressJun 20, 2022
Tenetehara Indigenous man Regis Tufo Moreira Tembe patrols with the Ka’Azar, or Forest Owners, on the Alto Rio Guama reserve in Para state, near the city of Paragominas, Brazil, Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2020. Three Tenetehara Indigenous villages patrol to guard against illegal logging, gold mining, ranching, and farming on their lands, as increasing encroachment and lax government enforcement during COVID-19 have forced the tribe to take matters into their own hands. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)
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Mining companies back away from Brazil’s Indigenous areas

By The Associated PressMay 31, 2022
Workers with the Pebble Mine project test drill in the Bristol Bay region of Alaska near the village of Iliamna, Alaska, in 2007. The battle over a copper and gold mine near one of the world's premiere salmon fisheries is headed to the ballot in a vote next week that has turned a normally sleepy local election into a national environmental debate. (AP Photo/Al Grillo, File)
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EPA proposes restrictions in fight over Alaska mine

By The Associated PressMay 29, 2022
A former iron ore processing plant near Hoyt Lakes, Minnesota, shown here on Feb. 10, 2016, would become part of a proposed PolyMet copper-nickel mine. The Fond du Lac Band is fighting the mine in court, saying it would pollute the waterways. (AP Photo/Jim Mone)
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EPA recommends against reissuing permit for PolyMet mine

By The Associated PressMay 4, 2022
The Montana Mountains loom over Thacker Pass in northern Nevada, July 14, 2021. A federal judge on Friday, July 23, has denied environmentalists' request for a court order temporarily blocking the government from digging trenches for archaeological surveys at a mine planned near the Nevada-Oregon line with the biggest known U.S. deposit of lithium. (Jason Bean/The Reno Gazette-Journal via AP)
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Joe Biden's mining boost may not have quick payoff

By The Associated PressMay 2, 2022
In this Sept. 13, 2018, file photo, Melissa Boerst, a Lithium Nevada Corp. geologist, points to an area of future exploration from a drill site at the Thacker Pass Project in Humboldt County, Nev. A federal judge has denied tribal leaders' bid to temporarily block digging for an archaeological study required before construction can begin for a Nevada lithium mine on what they say is sacred land where their ancestors were massacred more than century ago. U.S. District Judge Miranda Du refused three tribes' request for a preliminary injunction blocking the trenching planned to collect samples near the Oregon line at the site of the largest known lithium deposit in the United States. (Suzanne Featherston/The Daily Free Press via AP, File)
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US seeks new lithium sources as battery demand grows

By The Associated PressMar 30, 2022
One of many abandoned mine shafts, center left, along the Cherum Peak Trail in the Cerbat Mountains, exposed now after a covering structure collapsed, Monday, Sept. 3, 2007, in Chloride, Ariz. Not far away two sisters fell into a 125-foot-deep abandoned mine shaft while driving their all-terrain vehicle late Saturday. Rikki Howard, 13, died in the accident while her sister Casie Hicks, 10, is in the hospital being treated for her injuries. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
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Arizona poised to buckle down on abandoned mines

By The Associated PressMar 29, 2022
Dillon Mountain from Dalton Highway (MilePost 203). (Photo by Bob Wick, Bureau of Land Management, courtesy of Creative Commons, July 2014)
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Interior seeks to suspend Alaska mine road decision

By The Associated PressFeb 23, 2022
Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro rubs his mouth during a ceremony to commemorate Public Servant Day, at the Planalto Presidential Palace in Brasilia, Brazil, Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2020. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)
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Illegal mining stokes Indigenous divisions

By The Associated PressJan 22, 2022
The Montana Mountains loom over Thacker Pass in northern Nevada, July 14, 2021. A federal judge on Friday, July 23, has denied environmentalists' request for a court order temporarily blocking the government from digging trenches for archaeological surveys at a mine planned near the Nevada-Oregon line with the biggest known U.S. deposit of lithium. (Jason Bean/The Reno Gazette-Journal via AP)
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Judge won't reconsider tribes' bid to block mine

By The Associated PressNov 17, 2021
In this Feb. 17, 2010, file photo, the snowcapped Cabinet Mountains tower over the lush Kootenai River Valley outside of Libby, Mont. Montana environmental regulators want to dismiss a legal case that sought to block the president of an Idaho-based mining company from being involved in two silver and copper mines near and beneath the Cabinet Mountains Wilderness. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)
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Tribes, groups sue to enforce mining law

By The Associated PressNov 15, 2021