The Environmental Protection Agency moved to block the Pebble Mine in Alaska on Tuesday, preventing mining waste discharges into the Bristol Bay watershed. It’s a decision the agency says will ...

The Environmental Protection Agency reached a settlement with Coeur Alaska, the company that owns the Kensington Mine northwest of Juneau, over violations at that facility.. Coeur Alaska will pay ...

At an April 27 hearing, GOP lawmakers blasted the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for limiting the scope of the Pebble Mine project in Bristol Bay, Alaska, before the project’s developer ...

A new wave of testing by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has found that 79 percent of the wells tested north of the World War II-era copper mine have dangerous levels of uranium or ...

A year after 3 million gallons of heavy metal sludge from the shuttered Gold King Mine gushed into a tributary of the Animas River, the Navajo Nation is suing the Environmental Protection Agency ...

The Environmental Protection Agency says there may still be blockages in the Gold King Mine that could lead to future wastewater surges more than two weeks after 3 million gallons of contaminants ...

Georgia environmental regulators could decide any day now whether to clear an Alabama-based company to mine next door to Georgia’s famed Okefenokee Swamp. Now, a pair of bills that would prevent ...

Environmental Protection Agency assesses permanent mine waste repository By Tyler Brown Herald Staff Writer Tuesday, Oct 4, 2022 7:14 PM Updated Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2022 9:30 PM ...

WASHINGTON – Bringing longstanding questions and concerns to light, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is demanding environmental mitigation measures for the proposed Pebble Mine near Alaska’s Bristol ...