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Original Post ➡️ Arch Resources, the second largest coal producer in Wyoming, reported Thursday that it plans to keep shrinking its “operational footprint” in Wyoming’s energy-rich Powder River Basin. Its end-goal is the “eventual closure” of its Wyoming mines. An aerial view of the Coal Creek mine about 30 miles southeast of Gillette. (Courtesy Ecoflight) ...
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Original Post ➡️ An aerial view of the Great Salt Lake taken from an EcoFlight plane on April 9, 2024. (credit: Kade Garner/KTVX) SALT LAKE CITY (ABC4) — After a recent meeting with experts in the field, the Office of the Great Lake has released a plan to combat the urgent issue of dust pollution ...
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Original Post ➡️ Statement advocates maintaining water and mining rights, continued grazing, prohibiting feesThe Dolores River rolls through the community of Gateway in Mesa County. The Gateway Canyons Resort on Colorado Highway 141 is the western mouth of the Unaweep Canyon on the left. (Jason Blevins/The Colorado Sun/EcoFlight, File)Following several forums with communities in Southwest ...
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Original Post ➡️ A new study finds that the mining and processing of the metal critical to EV batteries and renewable energy storage projects depletes and contaminates surface water, often in already vulnerable communities. At the Salton Sea in California, geothermal plants could soon also extract lithium from brine water contained deep in the ground. ...
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Original Post ➡️ When Aaron Weiss requested internal emails from Mesa County related to a public opinion poll on a proposed national monument for the Dolores River region, he wasn’t expecting them to reveal that monument opponents were involved in suggesting poll questions.But that and other revelations produced by the emails request have him contending ...
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Original Post ➡️ One of the worst natural disasters in Colorado’s history took place in Mesa County on May, 25th, 2014. It came to be known as the West Salt Creek Landslide and remains the longest landslide to take place in Colorado’s historical record.Ten years later, Colorado realizes just how awful this disaster could have been, and just how lucky we are ...
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Original Post ➡️ After meeting with locals in Mesa and Montrose counties, Sens. Bennet and Hickenlooper say additional protection around the Dolores River should not impact mining, hunting, grazing and water rights The Dolores River winds toward the Paradox Valley in Montrose County. (Jason Blevins, The Colorado Sun / EcoFlight) Colorado’s U.S. Sens. Michael Bennet ...
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Original Post ➡️ The Dolores River winds toward the Paradox Valley in Montrose County. (Jason Blevins, The Colorado Sun / EcoFlight) Colorado’s U.S. Sens. Michael Bennet and John Hickenlooper are on board with increased protections around the Dolores River but only if existing mining, hunting, grazing and water rights are protected.The senators on Tuesday released a statement indicating they ...
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Original Post ➡️ As the impacts of the U.S. Supreme Court’s Sackett decision of 2023 unfold, New Mexico water advocates are pushing for increased protections of waterways that are no longer protected under the Clean Water Act. Advocates from groups like Trout Unlimited and Amigos Bravos partnered with EcoFlight to help a group of legislators ...
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Original Post ➡️ The U.S. Border Patrol reported Friday that the bodies of two men, ages 44 and 18, and a 17-year-old girl were found in the desert. By Anita Snow, Associated PressThree Mexican migrants have died in the Sonoran Desert in Arizona near the U.S.-Mexico border as high temperatures soar well into the triple ...
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