Pollution charge for US miners
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JAKARTA, Indonesia -- Indonesia's environment minister charged yesterday that US-based Newmont Mining Corp. "cut corners" to boost profits at its Indonesian gold mine and expressed confidence the government will win a criminal case accusing executives of causing pollution.
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By Erica Meltzer, The Arizona Daily Star, Tucson  Feb. 7--Pima County is taking the State Land Department to court in an attempt to overturn a decision allowing mining in Davidson Canyon.
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By Ken Ward Jr.  kward@wvgazette.com  Coal operators cannot evade the Clean Water Act by building sediment-treatment ponds just downstream from strip mine valley fills, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.   U.S. District Judge Robert C.
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By Robert Gehrke, The Salt Lake Tribune  Jun. 21--The Energy Department awarded EnergySolutions a $98.4 million  contract Wednesday to begin removing 16 million tons of uranium tailings and  contaminated soil from the banks of the Colorado River near Moab.   But Rep.
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U.S. coal mining companies, which for years have been branded the bad guys of global warming, are fighting back.
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Environmentalists today said US mining giant Newmont must stand trial despite a court ruling that declared a police investigation into alleged pollution by the firm illegal.
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An environmental group has staked claim to 20 acres of public land next to a posh subdivision to show just how antiquated the nation's mining laws are.
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By Mary E. Young, Reading Eagle, Pa. May 26--Berks County's environmental defense fund stands to nearly double to $1.45 million because of landfill penalties announced Friday by the state Department of Environmental Protection.
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A pair of accidents that killed more than 300 miners has underscored the human price China pays for its booming economy and ravenous appetite for coal, an industry that's seen more than 4,500 workers killed on the job this year.
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By Daniel Kelley, Belleville News-Democrat, Ill.  Jun. 15--MARISSA -- A Peabody Energy proposal to reopen a surface mine and use adjacent land as a burnt coal landfill outside Marissa has drawn concern from nearby residents and praise from the business community.
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KING COUNTY - A nasty surprise for fishermen and apple growers. The World Trade Organization says there will be tariffs on those products and heavy machinery from the United States.
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JAKARTA An internal company report warned top executives at Newmont Mining, the world&#39;s largest gold producer, in 2001 that the company was putting tons of toxic mercury vapors into the air in Indonesia.
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By The Associated Press  MORGANTOWN - Opponents of a $1 billion, coal-fired power plant are trying once again to halt the construction, filing a federal lawsuit that claims an air quality permit for the project expired in 2005.  The lawsuit was filed Tuesday in U.S.
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WASHINGTON -- Robert Stec would like to help clean up the nation's dirty air, but at $1 million a plant to install air-pollution control technology, it would be cheaper for him to move his furniture manufacturing business overseas.
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CHICAGO, June 5  /PRNewswire/ -- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region 5 has reached an agreement with Minnesota Metal Finishing Inc. of Minneapolis for alleged violations of hazardous waste rules.  The company will pay an $85,000 penalty.
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JAKARTA, Indonesia -- A US mining company admitted Wednesday it released tons of mercury into the air and water over a period of years at one of its Indonesian gold mines but denied it had any health impact on people.
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NEW YORK, December 23  - The worldâs largest gold producer Newmont Mining (NEM.NYS) admitted yesterday that it had released 17 tons of waste mercury into the air, and another 16 tons into the water over a period of five years from its