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Nolan Bill Gets Passed Giving PolyMet Green Light to Advance Its Copper-Nickel Mine, Minnesota
November 30, 2017
The U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday passed legislation that orders the U.S. Forest Service to move forward with a land exchange giving PolyMet Mining access to the site where it hopes to build Minnesota’s first-ever copper-nickel mine. The bill
Forest Service to Hold Public Meetings for American CuMo Mining’s Molybdenum Mine, Idaho
November 30, 2017
The U.S. Forest Service is holding public meetings on a proposed open-pit molybdenum mine a Canadian company wants to build in the Boise National Forest in central Idaho. The agency on Tuesday announced meetings on Dec. 5 in Boise, Dec.
House to Vote Today on Minnesota Mining Ban Bill After Being Delayed
November 30, 2017
The U.S. House on Wednesday debated legislation that would reopen areas near the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in northern Minnesota to copper-nickel exploration and potential mining, but stopped short of taking any vote. House members hotly debated the bill
Ex-Coal CEO Don Blankenship Considers Run for West Virginia Senate
November 30, 2017
Don Blankenship, a former coal executive who served a year in prison for conspiring to violate mine-safety laws before a 2010 mine disaster, is running for Senate in West Virginia, a GOP official said, adding another candidate to the field
Murray Energy Backs Out of Deal to Acquire Bowie Resource Partners’s Coal Mine in Colorado
November 30, 2017
The owner of an idled coal mine near Paonia says current financial market conditions have scuttled a deal under which it was to have been purchased by investors including coal giant Murray Energy Corp. Kentucky-based Bowie Resource Partners — owner
We Energies to Shutter Its Pleasant Prairie Coal Plant, Wisconsin
November 30, 2017
Another power plant that buys Wyoming’s coal is facing early retirement, the latest in the trend of disappearing customers for Powder River Basin coal. Wisconsin’s largest utility, We Energies, could shut down the Pleasant Prairie coal plant in southeastern Wisconsin
Study: Satellites Show No Acceleration in Global Warming for 23 Years
November 30, 2017
Global warming has not accelerated temperature rise in the bulk atmosphere in more than two decades, according to a new study funded by the Department of Energy. University of Alabama-Huntsville climate scientists John Christy and Richard McNider found that by
Fraser Institute Study Says Climate Change Programs Cost Billions for Paltry Results
November 28, 2017
A new study from the Fraser Institute says taxes aimed at curbing climate change and helping green energy projects produce phenomenal costs and little benefit to the environment. The Vancouver-based group examined climate change initiatives in Canada and around the
UN Climate Fund Take a Hard Hit
November 28, 2017
President Donald Trump’s decision to stop shoveling money into the U.N.’s Green Climate Fund has dramatically hurt the financial instruments the organization uses to tackle climate change. The U.S. promised to contribute $3 billion into the fund before Trump moved
Flaw Exposed in Paris Climate Accord
November 28, 2017
While United Nations delegates wrap up this year’s climate summit, observers and experts have been coming to terms with an extremely inconvenient implication of meeting the goal of the Paris climate accord. Meeting the accord’s goal of keeping global temperature
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