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Cameco Receives 10-year Operating License for Port Hope Nuclear Conversion Facility, Ontario

February 28, 2017

Cameco has been granted a 10-year operating licence for its conversion facility in Port Hope, Ontario by the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC). The new licence expires on February 28, 2027. “We are very pleased that the CNSC has accepted

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Medallion Names Saskatchewan Research Council for Test-work for Its Rare-earth Extraction Process

February 28, 2017

Medallion Resources Ltd. has named the Mineral Processing and Metallurgical Testing section of Saskatchewan Research Council (SRC) to perform advanced process test-work for further development of the company’s rare-earth extraction process. “SRC is one of only a few labs in

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EIA Responds to False Claims in Recent Articles from ProPublica and The Atlantic

February 28, 2017

A recent web article by ProPublica (Child’s Play: Team Trump Rewrites a Department of Energy Website for Kids, February 17, 2017) that was republished by The Atlantic on its website (A Government Website for Kids Scrubbed Its Climate Warnings, February

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U.S. Steel Goes to Court Over Its Minntac Iron Mining Operations Mine Permit, Minnesota

February 24, 2017

U.S. Steel has gone to court in a dispute with the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency over pollution limits for its Minntac iron mining operations. Minntac has been operating under a water quality permit that technically expired in 1992. Pittsburgh-based U.S.

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EPA Seeks Dismissal of Mine Spill Lawsuit Claims

February 24, 2017

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is asking a federal court to dismiss claims in two lawsuits filed over the Gold King Mine spill. Last year, the state of New Mexico and the Navajo Nation filed separate lawsuits against the federal

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Warrior Met Coal to Hire Up to 200 Underground Mine Workers, Alabama

February 24, 2017

Warrior Met Coal, the company that purchased bankrupt Walter Energy’s main assets in 2016, says they are hiring. According to spokesperson Bill Stanhouse, the company plans to hire up to 200 experienced underground mine workers as soon as possible for

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Scott Pruitt to Withdraw Both Clean Power Plan and Waters of the United States Rule

February 24, 2017

In his first interview as EPA administrator, Scott Pruitt made one thing very clear: the Clean Power Plan, the signature climate regulation of the Obama administration, is not long for this world. Pruitt told the Wall Street Journal on Friday

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Trump’s Executive Orders Expected to Dismantle Obama’s Climate Action Plan

February 24, 2017

President Donald Trump will order the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to begin dismantling a regulation central to former President Barack Obama’s plan to fight global warming. A source briefed on the matter told The Washington Post one of the orders

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Ternium to Acquire thyssenkrupp AG’s Subsidiary CSA Siderurgica for $1.38 Billion, Alabama

February 23, 2017

Ternium S.A. has entered into a definitive agreement with thyssenkrupp AG (tkAG) to acquire a 100 percent ownership interest in thyssenkrupp Slab International B.V. (tkSI) and its wholly-owned subsidiary CSA Siderúrgica do Atlântico Ltda. (CSA). In addition, tkAG will assign

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Benton and Nordmin Completes Environmental Impact Update at Cape Ray Gold Project, Canada

February 23, 2017

Benton Resources Inc. and its joint venture partner Nordmin Engineering Ltd. have advanced with the environmental assessment (EA) process for its Cape Ray Gold Project located in Southwestern Newfoundland approximately 20 kilometers northeast of Port aux Basques. Provincially, a project

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