Across coal country, the same toxic sludge and rust-colored water that once symbolized the end of an industry is starting to look like the beginning of something else. Buried in coal ash ponds, mine ...

LEADVILLE, Colo. — Rust-colored piles of mine waste and sun-bleached wooden derricks loom above the historic Colorado mountain town of Leadville — a legacy of gold and silver mines polluting the ...

Abandoned oyster shells can remove rare earth elements from polluted water through mineral reactions, offering a low-cost, ...

Rust-colored piles of mine waste and sun-bleached wooden derricks loom above the historic Colorado mountain town of Leadville—a legacy of gold and silver mines polluting the Arkansas River basin more ...

The MPCA fined Northshore Mining in Silver Bay $19,000 after repeated violations of its wastewater permit and Minnesota ...

KEWEENAW COUNTY, MI — Saving the reef won’t be cheap. A new Buffalo Reef Task Force report estimates it will cost several billion dollars to remove 12.7 million cubic yards of copper mining waste ...

Toxic contaminants from metal mining have infiltrated hundreds of thousands of kilometers of river channels around the world, exposing about 23 million people to potentially unsafe levels of lead, ...

Northshore Mining has been fined $19,000 for multiple violations of Minnesota environmental rules. According to officials ...

Across Appalachia, rust-colored water seeps from abandoned coal mines, staining rocks orange and coating stream beds with metals. These acidic discharges, known as acid mine drainage, are among the ...

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