The moment the U.S. Forest Service posted its July notice of a draft decision to permit gold prospecting at Jenny Gulch here in the Black Hills, tribes, water protectors and treaty rights defenders turned out in droves to ward off the project and others like it.
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Pro-marijuana activists say a bill recently passed in North Dakota has outlawed the sale of some previously allowed cannabis-related products found in convenience stores and smoke shops around the state. Officials dispute the claim and say the new law only goes after vendors who are exploiting a legal loophole by selling powerful and unregulated pot-like substances.
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Company intends to proceed with Black Hills uranium mining while EPA permits are on appeal
Powertech says the EPA has already approved its plan to use in-situ leach meaning to recover uranium near the Wyoming border in southwestern South Dakota. But a federal spokesperson says the agency has yet to give final approval, following an appeal from the Oglala Sioux Tribe. Written By: Christopher Vondracek | ×
A window bearing a sign opposed to uranium mining rests in a storefront on July 20, 2020 in Edgemont, S.D. (Christopher Vondracek / Forum News Service)
PIERRE, S.D. A virtual status report on a uranium mining project in the southern Black Hills briefly grew testy on Wednesday, May 5, when an attorney representing water rights advocates pressed a state board against allowing a permitting process to go forward for over a dozen wellfields in the Dewey-Burdock formation.