The U.S. EPA has started the long-awaited cleanup of Cold War-era uranium mine sites at a Superfund site on the Navajo Nation.

A recent court case has environmentalists cautiously optimistic about cleanup efforts at the Tulsequah Chief Mine. The mine, which is southeast of Juneau in British Columbia, Canada, which has been ...

Located in the Diablo Mountains just west of I5, about 50 miles from Fresno, the long abandoned operation has become a source of mercury contamination, posing a threat to people and wildlife. Nearly a ...

Acid mine drainage (AMD) from abandoned coal mines is preventing life from thriving in rivers and streams. A new video (above) demonstrates how West Virginia University (WVU) and Rockwell Automation ...

Cumberland, B.C. was built on coal mining—both literally and practically. Thousands of workers were employed and millions of tons of coal were exported over 80 years before the mines were shuttered, ...

SPRINGFIELD — Illinois stands to receive $1 billion in federal funding over the next 15 years to remediate hundreds of acres of distressed land used for coal mining prior to 1977, thanks to the ...

PINEHURST, Idaho – Steel bars block the arched opening to the Constitution Mine in Idaho’s Silver Valley, a reminder that people for decades would hold beer parties in the cavernous elevator room. The ...

UBS expects copper prices to rise into next year, citing tightening supply from persistent mine disruptions and strong ...

A proposal that would claw back federal wetland protections is also poised to reduce the number of permits for mining.

BOISE – A phosphate mining company has reached a toxic-waste cleanup agreement with the Environmental Protection Agency and the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes over mining waste in southeastern Idaho.