Earl Tulley fought for justice for the Navajo communities harmed by uranium mining. Then he found a lump in his jaw.
Mining
As National Public Lands Day approaches, Indigenous leaders discuss working with agencies to manage dispossessed lands.
In 1885, white coal miners in Wyoming Territory, murdered at least 28 Chinese men and ran the rest of the Chinese out of town at gunpoint. These artworks bring that history back to the present.
Rounding up the Biden administration’s ups and downs on land policy.
Active and proposed mines threaten key salmon watersheds in Alaska and British Columbia.
A proposed sand and gravel mine threatens the heritage of the central California tribe.
Experts suggest needed upgrades in the face of modern crises.
A new venture near Salmon signals an uptick in hardrock mining across the West.
Now is not the time to loosen mining regulations.
State investigators reveal that the company did not follow basic safety protocols.
HCN caught up with the Democrat and first Alaska Native person in Congress to talk about balancing development and environmental protection.
Cleaning up the West could be as lucrative as wrecking it.
A mining company and government agencies repeatedly said they’d clean up waste in Homestake, New Mexico. Instead, they’re buying out homeowners.
A closer look at the good and the bad of specific provisions in the historic climate bill, the Inflation Reduction Act.
After a controversial merger put the company in the hands of Barrick Gold Corp, employees say the shift has incentivized production over worker safety.
The world’s least understood ignition source is causing devastating wildfires across Montana’s Powder River Basin.
Chi’chil Biłdagoteel exemplifies the larger struggle tribes face over protecting off-reservation, culturally important lands.
Filling the economic void left by the extraction economy by healing the land.
A new report shows that noise from just one mine could travel more than 300 miles across the ocean.
But the Canadian company gets a win for its other, nearby operation at Copper World.
Residents of a Butte neighborhood are concerned about what’s wafting from a nearby open-pit mine that can coat their homes and vehicles.
While the region has a small cache of tellurium, politics and economics are in the way.
Tribal communities in Arizona and Utah face environmental problems connected to the same radioactive resource: uranium.
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