“President Biden’s Build Back Better plan is an environmental and climate initiative, too. Cleaning up abandoned mines and orphaned oil and gas wells creates jobs by cleaning our water and climate. But the $16 billion proposed must only be a… More »
On March 1, the US Forest Service did what numerous groups asked them to do: withdraw the incredibly flawed Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) which would have allowed the Resolution Copper Mine to proceed under a land exchange. The exchange… More »
Oak Flat, an area of Arizona sacred to the San Carlos Apache, is a piece of public land slated to be handed over to a mining company. Congressional leaders have now introduced the Save Oak Flat Act, and we need your help to be sure it passes.
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The massive open-pit Stibnite Mine would use cyanide to extract gold on public lands in the headwaters of Idaho’s Salmon River—one of the most cherished and economically important waterways in the northwest. The Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) for the… More »
Statement of Earthworks Executive Director Jennifer Krill Today by a bipartisan 51-40 vote the Senate confirmed US Rep. Debra Haaland to become the first Native American Secretary of the Interior in U.S. history. The Interior Department oversees the country’s public… More »
Understanding tailings dam safety is important because people and ecosystems die when mine tailings dams fail. In 2019, a tailings dam collapsed in Brumadinho, Brazil killing 272 people and dumping 9.7 million cubic meters of mine waste over the surrounding… More »
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