Nome Gold Mines Have Permit Revoked, for Now: ARMY CORPS: During the Agency's Review, Alaska Gold Must Halt Most Construction.
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By Elizabeth Bluemink, Anchorage Daily News, Alaska  Dec. 8--The Army Corps of Engineers this week suspended a wetlands permit for the Rock Creek and Big Hurrah gold mines under construction near Nome.
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By Bill White / Bwhite@adn.Com And Don Hunter / Dhunter@adn.Com, Anchorage Daily News, Alaska  Jun.
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By Joe Baird, The Salt Lake Tribune  Dec. 12--Environmentalists and outfitters are asking the Bureau of Land  Management to shelve a proposed gas drilling project near the White River in  eastern Utah.
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WASHINGTON, Sept. 8 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The following is a statement from Mike Daulton, the director of conservation policy, National Audubon Society:   "The court's preliminary decision gives a reprieve to some of the most sensitive habitat in Alaska.
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AURORA __ A Beaufort County strip-mining operation that is one of the regions largest employers is asking regulators to allow it to destroy 2,500 acres of wetlands.
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By AP  TULALIP   The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has halted excavation at an old chemical weapons storage site on the Tulalip Indian Reservation after four workers reportedly suffered effects from mustard gas buried there 60 years ago.   The four were briefly hospitalized Aug.
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By H.JOSEF HEBERT  WASHINGTON - The Interior Department has agreed to temporarily abandon the sale of oil leases in an environmentally sensitive area surrounding Lake Teshekpuk on Alaska's North Slope.
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South African mining giant Gold Fields lost a high court bid to halt a hostile takeover by rival Harmony Gold, which is seeking to create the world&#39;s biggest gold producer, a court official said.
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Gold and other precious-metal mines excavate on federal lands  -  and wreak havoc on the eGold and other precious-metal mines excavate on federal lands  -  and wreak havoc on the environment, and it doesn't cost them a cent. Now a federal bill aims to change that
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The following editorial appeared in the Kansas City Star on Sunday, Dec. 17:  The Bush administration is trying again to stifle the public's say in decisions about logging and mining in the national forests.
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By Joe Baird, The Salt Lake Tribune  Dec. 8--RICHFIELD -- Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr. pulled back the state's  roadless forest petition last month following a federal court decision that  has thrown the Bush administration's whole petition process into question.
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The government plans to delay its decision to put the polar bear on the endangered list until after it leases 30 million acres near Alaska for oil and gas drilling. What gives?
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By Anchorage Daily News, Alaska  Feb. 27--SOLDOTNA -- A subcommittee of Kenai Peninsula fishing interests  could not reach consensus on fishing methods for a subsistence fishery on the  Kenai and Kasilof rivers.
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For nearly four weeks a mining community in central Utah held out hope that six men trapped in a coal mine cave-in would be found alive. That hope is gone now that federal mine officials have suspended the search for the men.
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LOS ANGELES, Aug. 22 -- The Utah coal mine where three rescuers were killed and six men remained trapped will cease operations when the flagging effort to locate the missing is finally called off, mine operator Robert E. Murray said Wednesday. The statement by the combative chief executive of Mur...
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The following editorial appeared in the Kansas City Star on Wednesday, June 13:  No one but the timber industry benefits if the U.S. Forest Service allows the continued degradation of the world's largest temperate rainforest _ the Tongass in southeast Alaska.
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Gold mining company Newmont Mining Corporation announced that operations at one of its mining projects were being scaled back due to safety concerns after a blockade of road access to the mine.