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Mining company hit with accusation it contaminated waterways with harmful levels of uranium and lead

Rio Tinto, an Anglo-Australian mining company, is facing legal claims that it contaminated lakes with harmful levels of uranium and lead.

When environmental activists recently gathered at the Statehouse to push for cleaner energy, they began with what has become commonplace at public events in Vermont...

Climate activists gathered at the Vermont Statehouse on Tuesday to push lawmakers to require utilities to get more of their power from renewable energy sources...

MIAMI, Okla. — A creek that flows orange through a former lead and zinc mining site recently made the top 10 list of “America’s Most Endangered Rivers” in 2021, despite

Please do everything possible to make these bills a turning point for climate justice in Vermont.

The Biden administration is racing to find minerals for electric vehicles and clean tech. But many of the mines will be located next to the lands of

Many proposed mines for minerals used in electric vehicles and clean tech will be located next to the lands of Indigenous people

Organizations representing concerned Oklahomans are challenging the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) approval of the state’s coal ash program. The groups argue that the EPA unlawfully failed to provide adequate public participation and allowed Oklahoma to issue dangerous “permits for life” to coal ash facilities. “Permits for life” deprive the public and regulators of predictable reviews of legal requirements and onsite conditions at coal ash facilities, like what’s required...