Shared from the 10/2/2020 The Denver Post eEdition
COAL INDUSTRY
Ex-CEO seeks lung benefit By The Associated Press
CHARLESTON, W.VA.» Former coal CEO Robert E. Murray, who has fought federal regulations on the industry, has filed an application with the U.S. Department of Labor for b...
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NATIONAL EMERGENCY DECLARED By Matthew Brown and Steve KarnowskiThe Associated Press
BILLINGS, MONT.» The Trump administration is seeking to fast-track mining projects and could offer grants and loans to help companies pay for equipment, a...
Shared from the 9/3/2020 The Denver Post eEditionBy Matthew BrownThe Associated Press
SCALING BACK ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW
BILLINGS, MONT.» The Trump administration is seeking to fast-track environmental reviews of dozens of major energy and infrastructure projects during the COVID-19 pandemic, inclu...
Shared from the 8/9/2020 The Denver Post eEditionBy Theresa Davis
The Albuquerque Journal
SHIPROCK, N.M
On Aug. 5, 2015, Environmental Protection Agency contractors breached a mine tunnel at the abandoned Gold King Mine near Silverton, sending 3 million gallons of acid mine drainage into the...
The Associated Press, from The Denver Post eEdition, July 9, 2020
DURANGO»The Environmental Protection Agency plans to temporarily seal a bulkhead at one of the most polluted mines in a Colorado region as part of a study of the region’s water. The EPA plans to close a bulkhead valve at the ...
Grand Canyon uranium mining ban upheld as supreme court declines to hear challenge
Court says extraction ban is among cases it refuses to review, in victory for environmental groups and Native American communities
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Three generations of Havasupai m...
A uranium company headquartered in Colorado "lobbied extensively" for President Donald Trump to reduce the size of Bears Ears National Monument, according to an investigation by the New York Times.
The implications of the story written by Hiroko Tabuchi were staggering: an area of long-he...
WASHINGTON — Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt announced late Friday that he will not scrap the agency’s 2014 determination that a large-scale mining operation could irreparably harm Alaska’s Bristol Bay watershed.
His decision, which falls short of blocking a proposed gold...
The Environmental Protection Agency took responsibility Friday for a massive wastewater spill that contaminated a Colorado river Wednesday, and warned locals to avoid the polluted waters.
According to a statement by the agency, an EPA cleanup team accidentally caused the spill while excav...
Late last month, a federal judge in Colorado stopped a coal-mining lease expansion from going forward, claiming that the agencies involved had not worked hard enough to account for climate impacts, either in the mine’s operations or in the amount of emissions that could come from the burning of the ...
So far this year, Oklahoma has had more earthquakes of a magnitude 3.0 or greater than any other state in the country — including California. More than 200, just since January.
This is a new and remarkable phenomenon. Just five years ago, Oklahoma was averaging only two 3.0 earthquakes a year. Now,...
Scientists have made an impassioned plea for humanity to pause and think before making a headlong rush to exploit the deep sea.
The researchers said the oceans' lowest reaches had untold riches that could benefit mankind enormously, but not if the harvesting were done destructively.
The scientists...
Clare Donohue, founder of an anti-fracking group called Sane Energy Project, said that out of the eight million people living in New York City, "You can walk up to anyone on the street and they haven’t heard about fracking yet." But if New Yorkers knew more about what fracking could do to their...
WASHINGTON--(ENEWSPF)--July 23, 2013 – The proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline would significantly boost the carbon pollution that drives climate change, failing the test set by President Obama, according to a detailed analysis by the Natural Resources Defense Council.
In just one key way, over...
Over the past few weeks, Colorado's Governor John Hickenlooper has gotten a lot of negative attention. First, for telling a U.S. Senate committee that he drank Halliburton's frack fluid; second, for threatening to sue the City of Fort Collins for its ban on fracking.
But Hickenlooper isn't ...
Researchers at Ohio State University have developed a method to convert coal to heat while capturing 99% of the carbon dioxide emissions.
Chemical and biomolecular engineering professor Liang-Shih Fan calls the new technology "coal-direct chemical looping." His team recently tested the new conversi...
