Critical minerals for the clean energy transition are abundant in the Southwest, but the dozens of mines proposed to access them will require vast sums of water, something in short supply in the desert.
Organizers are fighting for legislation that will allow miners to safely transition out of the coal economy and be retrained to work in greener jobs that may include wind turbine installation, solar farms or making batteries for electric vehicles.
The lead author of a new UN report on methane explains the findings and how oil and gas companies could be making money and saving the planet at the same time.
Lobbyists from industry and related groups — primarily from the oil and gas industry — met 224 times with the Senate on new environmental assessment law, while environmental groups had just 36 meetings.
Red spruce blanketed the mountains of West Virginia a century ago, before being decimated by the saw blade and acid rain from coal plants. Now they're replacing the mines that helped kill them.
