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Environment News tagged with mining

Our View: Red Dog, Take Two
Environment  (tags: Native America, mining, town, permit )

Lone
- 7 days ago - adn.com
Teck Alaska and NANA, the Native regional corporation, want to keep the Red Dog zinc and lead mine going for another 20 years.
4 comments
ACTION ALERT: Urge the Obama Administration to Help Save Coal River Mountain!!!!
Environment  (tags: coal river mountain, obama administration, conservation, mining, protection, habitat destruction, environment, nature )

Simone
- 7 days ago - secure.nrdconline.org
Mountaintop removal strip mining has leveled hundreds of Appalachian peaks, leaving scarred landscapes, polluted water and impoverished communities behind, and now the last remaining mountain in West Virginia's Coal River valley is in danger.
7 comments
Stop New Mining Near the Grand Canyon ! TAKE ACTION !
Environment  (tags: environment, mining, Grand Canyon, habitat, destruction, nature, protection )

Cher
- 17 days ago - thepetitionsite.com
The U.S. Secretary of the Interior recently ordered a temporary ban on uranium mining in a one million-acre area surrounding the Grand Canyon. Meanwhile, the U.S. Department of the Interior is simultaneously assessing the impact of mining.
14 comments
Keep The Flathead Wild ! TAKE ACTION !
Environment  (tags: environment, mining, destruction, habitat, nature, protection, wildlife, forests )

Cher
- 49 days ago - flatheadwild.ca
Call, email or write British Columbia Premier Gordon Campbell and Government of Canada Minister of Environment Jim Prentice. Let them know that you are against mining in the Flathead, and that you believe in the creation of a special land use plan with
8 comments
Protect the Greater Grand Canyon From Toxic Uranium Mining ! TAKE ACTION !
Environment  (tags: environment, mining, Grand Canyon, destruction, habitat, nature, protection )

Cher
- 50 days ago - change.org
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar is proposing to ban new mining claims on nearly one million acres of federal land surrounding the Grand Canyon to protect the Grand Canyon watershed from the many adverse impacts of mining. This is great news, but the
7 comments
Thank the EPA for Taking a Major Step Toward Ending Mountaintop Removal Mining ! TAKE ACTION !
Environment  (tags: environment, mountaintop removal, mining, destruction, habitat, nature, protection, wildlife )

Cher
- 72 days ago - secure2.convio.net
After eight long years of rubber-stamp permits during the Bush Administration, the EPA determined that all 79 mountaintop removal mining permits submitted by the Army Corps of Engineers would likely violate the Clean Water Act. Thank the EPA for this
5 comments
South Florida Water Managers Raise Questions About Expanding Rock Mining Near Everglades Restoration -- South Florida Sun-Sentin
Environment  (tags: environment, Everglades, wetlands, water management, rights, mining, nature, conservation )

Raffi
- 73 days ago - sun-sentinel.com
Environmental concerns are growing for plans to expand rock mining in an agricultural area targeted for Everglades restoration. Star Ranch, mined by Ron Bergeron's excavation operation, would expand its digging to almost 600 additional acres west of
5 comments
COAL IS NOT CLEAN PETITION ! TAKE ACTION !
Environment  (tags: environment, coal, mining, destruction, habitat, nature, protection )

Cher
- 91 days ago - change.org
Don't be blindsided by the slogan "Clean Coal" - coal mining remains the dirtiest and most destructive way of making energy. But the Coal industry has spent more than $45 million trying to convince the American people otherwise. Above ground, millions
6 comments
Speak Out To Protect Tennessee's Mountains From Destructive Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining ! TAKE ACTION !
Environment  (tags: environment, mountain top removal, mining, destruction, habitat, habitatdestruction )

Cher
- 97 days ago - change.org
Mountaintop removal coal mining is the most destructive form of coal mining on earth. Tennessee Senator Lamar Alexander is trying to protect Appalachia from this reckless mining by co-sponsoring bipartisan legislation -- the Appalachia Restoration Act
13 comments
Ecological Disaster Looms in Colombia : Mining Companies Granted Rights Over Unique Habitats Yet to Be Explored By Science
Environment  (tags: environment, destruction, mining, Columbia, habitat, protection, nature, wildlife )

Cher
- 99 days ago - wildlifeextra.com
The Serranía de San Lucas is one of the last unknown frontiers for biologists. Isolated and once covered with 2.5 million acres of forest to 7,500 feet elevation, none of it is protected and only a fraction of its forests survive.
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HELP SAVE THE CERULEAN WARBLER SUPPORT A SENATE BILL TO STOP MOUNTAINTOP REMOVAL COAL MINING ! TAKE ACTION !
Environment  (tags: animals, birds, AnimalWelfare, mining, mountaintop removal, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife, wildanimals, destruction, habitatdestruction, nature )

Cher
- 114 days ago - change.org
Using this action page, you can help stop America's most destructive mining practice that turns mountainsides into wastelands, buries streams forever under an avalanche of fill, and decimates critically needed habitat of our fastest declining songbird
32 comments
Grand Canyon Threatened By Uranium Mining - AUDIO FILES!
Environment  (tags: US, Grand Canyon National Park, Grand Canyon, uranium mining, Canada, Supai, AZ, Sierra Club, Havasupai Tribe, federal goverment, mining )

ON VACATI
- 121 days ago - earthcycles.net
Protest against the federal govt, a gathering/protest is being held this weekend-south of Grand Canyon at the Sacred Red Butte Supai, AZ-hosted by the Havasupai Tribe in alliance with Sierra Club.
12 comments
Salazar Calls Time-Out on Grand Canyon Mining Claims
Environment  (tags: environment, mining, Grand Canyon, timeout, habitat, protection, nature, destruction )

Cher
- 125 days ago - planetsave.com
"I am calling a two-year 'Time-Out' from all new mining claims in the Arizona Strip near the Grand Canyon," said Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, "because we have a responsibility to ensure we are developing our nation's resources in a way that protects
4 comments
Interior Secretary Salazar: Mining Reform = Better Beer
Environment  (tags: environment, humans, mining, business, habitatdestruction, habitat, pollution, politics )

Cal
- 129 days ago - motherjones.com
An estimated 500,000 abandoned mines have contaminated the headwaters of 40 percent of the West's streams. Cleaning them up will cost at least $32 billion. Salazar was testifying in support of two senate bills that would end the giveaway of mineral
1 comment
Protect Alaska National Parks From Industrial Mining ! TAKE ACTION !
Environment  (tags: environment, mining, nature, habitat, protection, destruction, wildlife )

Cher
- 130 days ago - change.org
1 million acres of prime wolf, bear and salmon habitat adjacent to Lake Clark and Katmai national parks could be opened to new mining claims with the stroke of a pen.
6 comments
 
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