HB355 would abolish local governments’ authority to regulate new gravel mines, despite a recent study that suggests limiting ...

Freeport-McMoRan has a mining location south of Tucson near Sahuarita and a technology center in Tucson. The company has worked with Sahuarita Unified School District, supporting students to ...

Residents in Benton, Mo., are worried about a potential sand quarry on the old Diebold Orchard property, fearing it might ...

The Carver County Board of Commissioners voted unanimously Tuesday morning to delay a decision on a proposed Dahlgren Township gravel mining expansion. After a break of several minutes to mull it ...

The AJC has learned a former top U.S. wildlife official wrote Gov. Brian Kemp to warn that a mine planned near the Okefenokee Swamp would threaten the fragile ecosystem.

In one of his first secretarial orders, Doug Burgum ordered staff to review public lands with an eye toward opening them to ...

Dredging operations, whether in marine or mining environments, demand robust and reliable equipment engineered to withstand ...

New interior secretary quietly orders millions of acres of protected lands to be reviewed for potential oil, gas, uranium and ...

A coal mine was the first to wreck the land. Now activists want to keep another extractive industry from taking root there: ...

Each year, thousands of migratory birds such as the colorful African pygmy goose, maccoa duck and African spoonbill stop at ...

White Mesa tribe faces new uranium threat as ancestral community becomes destination for nuclear waste and Grand Canyon ore ...

C oncerns have resurfaced about huge quantities of sand being taken from a beach in the South West, with residents and ...