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A new mining agreement provides no benefits for Mexico and fails to address health and…
A group of monks piled into Harry Browne’s one-room cabin earlier this year for morning…
The Malawi government has suspended the mining license of a coal company for dumping mining…
Congressional Republicans have sent President Donald Trump a resolution that would lift a federal ban…
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The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is holding a pair of virtual public hearings this week to get input on a proposed rule that would revise the Deep Seabed Hard Mineral Resources Act (DSHMRA) regulations. According to a notice…
Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Thursday urged the Zambian government to act punitively against mining firms that are violating domestic environmental law and worsening lead pollution. HRW detailed the impact of the firm Jubilee Metals Group on Kabwe, one of…
Mining activities can impact social and environmental systems in a range of positive and negative, and direct and indirect ways. Mining activities, including prospecting, exploration, construction, operation, maintenance, expansion, abandonment, decommissioning and repurposing of a mine, can impact social and…
A new Forests and Finance Coalition report finds top financial institutions, including JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America and BlackRock, support mining companies linked to deforestation, land-grabs, contamination and Indigenous rights violations. According to the report, from 2016-24, major banks provided…
The Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF) warns that The Metals Company’s latest effort to rush to start deep-sea mining, bypassing the International Seabed Authority (ISA) and instead seeking exploitation licenses through the United States, is a desperate move underscoring the industry’s…
Gallium is a shapeshifting metal that’s been compared to whatever was used to build the upgraded terminator in “Terminator 2.” Wyoming could provide the world with more of this liquid miracle metal, which is used to make self-healing fabrics and…
Chicago, IL, Sept. 05, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Welsbach Technology Metals Acquisition Corp. (OTC: WTMA), a publicly traded special purpose acquisition company announced the successful approval at its special meeting of stockholders on September 2, 2025 (the “Special Meeting”) of its…
The Firm Made Them Sign Away Their Rights First China’s Sino-Metals Leach Zambia spilled toxic sludge into communities and rivers, an accident that could cost billions to clean up and restore. The firm got impoverished and often illiterate villagers to…