Pushback Lands Two Wins

 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/6Fd3YiEr8hk

 

Trump administration to open untouched national forests to logging : NPR

"Before the roadless rule, we would build roads into areas and we would have money-losing timber sales that would cost taxpayers billions of dollars," said Steve Ellis, president of the non-partisan watchdog group, Taxpayers for Common Sense. "If you repeal this, it's just going to add to an already $6 billion [U.S. Forest Service] road maintenance backlog."…

 https://www.npr.org/2026/08/18/nx-s1-5936495/trump-administration-moves-to-open-untouched-national-forests-to-logging

 

Trump has a plan to break China’s mineral grip. It needs workers first. - POLITICO

The White House pledged $180 million last week to double by 2028 the number of mining school graduates with the skills necessary to work in the critical minerals sector. But even if that plan succeeds it won’t produce a fraction of the number of workers that the rapidly expanding industry requires. 

 It also ignored a fix that industry and mining school representatives say would help quickly — bringing in foreign workers…

 https://www.politico.com/news/2026/08/14/trump-wants-to-break-chinas-mineral-grip-it-needs-workers-first-01038385

Mystery of hit on Tren de Aragua leader: is US making Venezuela safe for mining?

Experts suspect the strike in Venezuela also had the parallel purpose of preparing the area for investment by mining companies. 

The Orinoco Mining Arc holds not just gold, but rare earths and critical minerals such as nickel, copper, bauxite and coltan that are vital for industrial and military production. 

Since January, the Venezuelan regime has passed a mining reform to open the sector to foreign private capital, while the US has issued licenses allowing US companies to carry out transactions involving Venezuelan-origin gold...

 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/23/venezuela-tren-de-aragua-assassination-mining

The President of Kazakhstan calls Donald Trump…

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/UmW6004ZysI 

Boundary waters vote on mining passes U.S. Senate | MPR News

The Senate vote is a big blow to conservation groups and others who argue the watershed of the Boundary Waters — a fragile and unique ecosystem and one of the most popular wilderness areas in the country — is the absolute wrong place for this kind of mining, which carries with it much more serious water pollution risks than iron ore mining.

 “We can support the need for mining, but that doesn't mean that we mine on the edge of Chaco Canyon or on the rim of the Grand Canyon, and it does not mean that we think that a copper-sulfide mine on the doorstep of the Boundary Waters is a good idea,” Smith said in her remarks before the vote today…

 https://www.mprnews.org/story/2026/04/16/boundary-waters-vote-on-mining-by-us-senate-thursday

Mining’s toxic timebomb: dams full of poisonous waste are dotted around the world. What happens when they burst?

While tailings dams are meant to last for ever, extreme weather events are making many unstable – with devastating consequences for nature and humans…

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/mar/13/minings-toxic-timebomb-dams-full-of-poisonous-waste-are-dotted-around-the-world-what-happens-when-they-burst-aoe

 

Exposure to mining fossil fuel linked to ALS, new research finds - ABC News

Longterm exposure to sulfur dioxide, a component produced by the combustion of oil-based fuel and coal, is associated with the development of the neurodegenerative disease, a paper published in Environmental Research found...

https://abcnews.go.com/Health/exposure-mining-fossil-fuel-linked-als-new-research/story

 

Trump officials open up millions of acres in Alaska to drilling and mining | Trump administration | The Guardian

Doug Burgum says Biden order that banned drilling in 23m-acre National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska will be reversed…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/02/trump-administration-alaska-drilling-mining 

 

Royalties for Drilling on Public Lands to Increase - The New York Times

For the first time since 1920, the government has raised the rates that companies pay. The fossil fuel industry says it will hurt the economy...

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/12/climate/biden-administration-raises-costs-to-drill-and-mine-on-public-lands.html

Biden: Trump can't be allowed to open Grand Canyon for uranium mining - Business Insider

Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden condemned plans to mine uranium around Arizona's Grand Canyon and said President Trump's nuclear energy plan would "drive a drill into the heart of one of Arizona's cultural and economic cornerstones." https://www.businessinsider.com/biden-trump-cant-be-allowed-open-grand-canyon-uranium-mining-2020-8

U.S. seeks to revive domestic rare-earths industry dominated by China - Axios

Several businesses are attempting to restore the United States' rare earth minerals and metals industry, as the federal government seeks to reduce its dependence on China, the world's leading miner, processor and exporter of the materials.
https://www.axios.com/rare-earth-minerals-us-china-019e8561-962a-4fa4-8159-e63a45459ace.html

Trump order encourages US to mine the moon

The world may be racked by the coronavirus, but Donald Trump has less earthly concerns on his mind, too, after signing an executive order encouraging the US to mine the moon for minerals. The executive order makes clear that the US doesn’t view space as a “global commons”, opening the way for the mining of the moon without any sort of international treaty.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/apr/07/trump-mining-moon-executive-order

Trump will allow drilling, mining in once-protected monuments - The Washington Post

The Interior Department finalized plans Thursday to permit drilling, mining and grazing in areas of southern Utah that had once been protected as two national monuments, sparking an outcry from tribal groups and conservationists. The decision comes more than two years after Trump dramatically cut the size of the monuments, Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante, and is likely to intensify a legal fight over the contested sites. ....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2020/02/06/trump-administration-will-allow-drilling-logging-sensitive-federal-lands-utah/

Trump hails 'blue-collar boom' as factories and mines shed thousands of jobs | Markets Insider

President Donald Trump has increasingly claimed there has been a renaissance for American factories ahead of his re-election bid, capitalizing on the populist surge that helped send him to the White House in 2016. But several traditionally blue-collar industries have fallen into precarious territory under his administration, with thousands of job losses across the nation. ....
https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/trump-state-union-touts-blue-collar-boom-factories-shed-jobs-2020-2-1028878380

Chinese metal mines feed the global demand for gadgets. They’re also poisoning China’s poorest regions - The Washington Post

Toxic dust and runoff bring soaring levels of dangerous metals such as cadmium and lead.....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/chinese-metal-mines-feed-the-global-demand-for-gadgets-theyre-also-poisoning-chinas-poorest-regions/2019/12/29/c90eac2c-0bcb-11ea-8054-289aef6e38a3_story.html

Trump administration weakens protections for endangered species - The New York Times

The Trump administration announced far-reaching revisions to the Endangered Species Act, which was first enacted in 1973....
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/12/climate/endangered-species-act-changes.html

Trump’s pick for managing federal lands doesn’t believe the government should have any - The Washington Post

William Perry Pendley favors opening up federal lands to mining, oil exploration, grazing and recreation
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/trumps-pick-for-managing-federal-lands-doesnt-believe-the-government-should-have-any/2019/07/31/0bc1118c-b2cf-11e9-8949-5f36ff92706e_story.html

Mining company leaves taxpayers with a $100 million cleanup bill—and it's just one of many - Daily Kos

There are many ways in which Donald Trump has rewarded companies while eroding environmental policies, but the mining industry in particular has benefited spectacularly...
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/1843071

50M gallons of contaminated wastewater dumped daily by mining sites -The Hill: AP

U.S. mining companies are responsible for 50 million gallons of toxic wastewater flowing untreated every day into streams and ponds around the country, according to a new analysis. ....
https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/430782-ap-50m-gallons-of-contaminated-wastewater-dumped-by-mining-sites