Nov 27, 2023 | Look West Newsletter
Patagonia recently launched a campaign urging President Biden to protect three ecologically sensitive areas of the Alaskan Arctic from drilling and mining. The areas include the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska (NPR-A), and the... 
Nov 20, 2023 | Look West Newsletter
U.S. District Judge Miranda Du has granted the government’s motion to dismiss claims brought by Tribes that the Thacker Pass lithium mine threatens the historic site of a massacre of Tribal members by the U.S. Cavalry in 1865. Du had previously ruled that the... 
Oct 18, 2023 | Look West Newsletter
A coalition of conservation and environmental organizations is alleging that a coal mine in Montana has failed to reclaim the land it has mined, creating unsafe conditions for nearby landowners, livestock, and agricultural producers. The mine is Bull Mountains Mine,... 
Sep 25, 2023 | Look West Newsletter
The governor of Alaska is reviving a decades-long fight to build an open pit mine at the headwaters of the Bristol Bay watershed in southwest Alaska. The Pebble Mine would destroy thousands of acres of wetlands and the planet’s most productive salmon fishery,... 
Sep 19, 2023 | Westwise Blog
We dug into the details to find out how the Biden administration proposes to fix America’s broken mining laws The Biden administration is recommending a suite of important reforms to the laws, regulations, and policies that govern mineral exploration and development...