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The U.S. Department of Justice and Pennsylvania Department of the Environment last week filed a civil lawsuit against five coal companies...

Federal regulation of mine waste could look very different by the end of the year if the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) meets a new suite of goals it has set for itself.

Generally, an entity that is a PTP is classified as a corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes under Section 7704.

Most U.S. railroad industry stock rose in the immediate aftermath of Donald Trump's election as president.

Under Dodd-Frank, the GAO is required to assess annually the effectiveness of the SEC's conflict minerals rules in promoting peace and security and to report on the rate of sexual violence in the DRC and adjoining...

The United States Congress had required the SEC to promulgate a rule requiring manufacturers to trace the sources of tin, tantalum, tungsten and gold.

The US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit is currently considering a request by mine worker unions to require MSHA to create an emergency COVID-19 regulation.

The case arose from a sex discrimination EEOC charge against Mach Mining, LLC (Company), alleging that the Company refused to hire female mineworkers.

Mining is going through a testing time. Indeed, Dr Adam Fraser suggested that the mining industry was in the midst of a 'perfect storm' – with the industry facing change on almost every front.

New Massachusetts solid waste rules encouraging composting operations and organics-to-energy facilities took effect on November 23.

On July 19, 2019, the D.C. Circuit issued its decision in Idaho Conservation League v. Wheeler, upholding US EPA's decision not

The U.S. Department of Interior (DOI) issued a Request for Information (RFI) asking affected industries to identify existing Interior regulations that...

Saying new testing on wire and hoisting ropes showed they "no longer met MSHA's in-service standards,"...

After my post on judicial restraint – and the lack thereof – in Texas v. EPA, the opinion issued last week by Judge Robert Chambers, in Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition v. United States Army Corps of Engineers, affirming the Corps’ § 404 permit for Highland Mining’s Reylas Surface Mine, seemed particularly notable.

On April 26, 2022, the New York Assembly passed a bill that would place a two-year moratorium on certain cryptocurrency mining operations that use proof-of-work authentication (POW) methods to validate blockchain transactions.

The Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC) Division of Corporation Finance issued a significant statement yesterday that certain proof-of-work (PoW) mining activities do not constitute securities offerings under federal securities laws.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit issued an opinion reversing the portion of the SEC’s conflict minerals rule.