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Resolution Copper, a major copper mine project in Arizona, is finally back on track thanks to the Trump administration moving ...
About 20 people gathered in San Juan County on Saturday to protest the planned reopening of the Velvet-Wood uranium mine.
Since 1970, more than 75,000 miners have died of black lung disease. Researchers working to prevent those deaths have ...
Records from the Mine Safety and Health Administration show that the Oak Grove mine was repeatedly cited for safety violations in the days leading up to Lara’s death.
Federal officials have released a final report on the investigation of a miner death that occurred earlier this year in ...
The Trump administration’s proposal to decommission the agency charged with investigating chemical accidents will hurt ...
Federal regulators have determined that the operator of a Raleigh County mine with a long history of safety failures caused a ...
The Trump administration’s Department of the Interior has issued a proposal to roll back improvements made in 2024 to a rule that allows the public to request federal inspections of coal mines to ...
When the Trump administration took the first steps toward shutting down two major programs aimed at protecting the nation’s ...
When miners protested Trump’s move to shutter safety offices and a health program for black lung disease, his administration ...
Deep cuts Miners have long faced grave health threats. Between 1900 and 1960, cave-ins, explosions, other disasters and mining accidents killed nearly 100,000 coal miners on the job.