A Post-Gazette investigation into the corporate ownership of single-family homes in Allegheny County has demonstrated just ...

Strip mining for phosphate rock violently transforms the environment, irreparably changing the character of the natural landscape. In many cases mines displace plants and animals and eat up thousands ...

Letcher County was 1 of 13 counties ravaged by catastrophic flooding in 2022, a situation exacerbated by damage strip mining ...

Mining infrastructure has had a negative impact on water quality. Strip mining for bauxite is inherently disruptive. Industry experts acknowledge that loss of land, disturbance of wildlife ...

Two House bills, HB 561 and HB 562, are being considered by a state House subcommittee to protect the Okefenokee National ...

Mining interests plan to use large, robotic machines to excavate the ocean floor in a way that's similar to strip-mining on land. The materials are pumped up to the ship, while wastewater and debris ...

MC Mining, owned by Chinese coal producer Kinetic Development, has allegedly illegally broken ground on what it calls its ‘shovel-ready’ flagship Makhado Colliery – despite the fact that the decision ...

A recent study out of the BMJ medical journal found that private equity acquisitions in every health-care setting “were most closely associated with up to a 32 per cent increase in costs for payers ...

“Seabed mining could take a number of destructive forms, including methods which would shear off seamounts on the ocean floor, the functional equivalent of strip mining,” Case said. The ...