Policy, politics and progressive commentary Nevada’s lone congressional Republican suffered a blow this week after six members of his own party joined Democrats to block a bill he authored to address a court ruling adopting a stricter interpretation of the 150-year-old General Mining Law. Mining developers looking to extract minerals in Nevada are grappling with the aftermath of a 2022 […] The post Amodei’s mining bill fails to pass Republican-controlled House appeared first on Nevada Current.
The U.S. House passed a bill Wednesday to counter an Interior Department order banning mining in a section of Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, taking aim at the Biden administration’s conservation agenda that Republicans say weighs environmental concerns too heavily at the expense of economic opportunity. But the Republican majority also suffered a setback on […] The post U.S. House splits on GOP-led Alaska and mining industry bills aimed at Biden agenda appeared first on Iowa Capital D
LOS ANGELES More than 3.5 million pounds of highly radioactive nuclear waste is buried on a coastal bluff just south of Orange County, California, near an idyllic beach name-checked