Card – The Verge – 12/29/21 Related: As Miners Chase Clean-Energy Minerals, Tribes Fear a Repeat of the Past
Exploratory drilling for copper, zinc underway in Pittsylvania County as new environmental coalition forms
Card – Danville Register & Bee – 12/13/21 Related: Press Pause on metal mining in Virginia
Resident group opposed to gold mining
Card – The Farmville Herald – 12/10/21
How the U.S. Lost Ground to China in the Contest for Clean Energy
Card – The New York Times – 11/21/21
A coal plant fights to stay open. It could enrich Manchin
Card – E&E Climatewire – 11/17/21
Big gold mine fined again, this time for toxic discharge violations near SC town
Card – The State – 11/9/21 Related: LETTER – Let’s protect what we love
Clean energy faces its own supply chain crisis
Card – The Verge – 11/17/21
Uranium mining ban upheld as Supreme Court of Va. declines to reopen lower court ruling
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Proposed Buckingham County Gold Mine
Sponsor: Friends of Buckingham Developer: Aston Bay Since at least 2016, Aston Bay Holdings has drilled more than 20 exploratory holes in the A-1 agricultural zone on land situated between Yogaville and the Union Hill community. Other Buckingham County locations
Mountaintop mining causes biodiversity losses, new study says
The September 2 issue of Science Daily reports on a new study that concludes biological diversity is “severely threatened by mountaintop coal mining.” The study was conducted by a research team led by Dr. Emily Bernhardt of Duke University and