Protecting our environmental resources and promoting social justice
Grist: The Battle of Thacker Pass Electric cars require a lot of lithium. A showdown in Nevada shows that getting it won’t be easy. By Maddie Stone on Mar 12, 2021 When Edward Bartell first learned that a lithium mine might be moving into his remote corner of northern Nevada, the longtime cattle rancher wasn’t upset. “I was actually …
“As The Guardian points out, the willingness to plunder natural resources is part and parcel with the administration’s policies on Earth. The Trump administration has opened up wide swaths of public land to mining and rolled back environmental regulations in an attempt to prop up the coal industry. The federal government has routinely ignored requests …
Trump Signs Executive Order to Mine the Moon for Minerals – EcoWatch Read More »
“In this administration, we have seen the doors to our public lands be thrown wide open to industry by the BLM avoiding and subverting any environmental protections we have on the books,” Donnelly said. “Sometimes that is through sweeping secretarial orders upending management of public lands but sometimes it’s just guys at their job trying …
Destroying all oversight agencies for the corporate polluters…..“The few details being shared with staff or congressional committees are often contradictory, incomplete or unsupported, fueling skepticism from career staff and members of Congress. “We’re going to be fragmented in different states,” said Michael Byrd, a middle-level contract manager who’s worked at the BLM for nine years. …
“Glyphosate, the herbicide’s main ingredient, isn’t manufactured in a lab, but originates in a mine. To produce it, phosphate ore is extracted and refined into elemental phosphorus. While Bayer, which recently bought Monsanto, touts its sustainable mining process, environmentalists contend that the process involves stripping away the soil off mountaintops, which destroys vegetation, contaminates water …
Roundup’s Other Problem: Glyphosate is Sourced from Controversial Mines Read More »
And thanks to those of you who raised your voices, concerned about the loss of research materials. Our own Congressman Huffman worked on this and we are very grateful. It’s hard to know if anyone would have paid attention if the Congressman had not taken action. A Request to Streamline Federal Document Purges Has Researchers …