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The Trump administration has unveiled the first 10 mining projects designated for accelerated federal permitting under Executive Order 14157, Immediate Measures to Increase American Mineral Production...

I have been writing about the Gold King Mine wastewater release since well, basically since it happened.

According to E&E News, Lisa Jackson said Friday that public pressure, not EPA regulation, will clean up fracking.

The SEC's final Conflict Minerals rule has a number of undefined terms and ambiguous provisions that require difficult interpretations of the rule's applicability.

A major online retailer's blockchain fund added VinX, a blockchain-based wine venture, to its portfolio last week. VinX plans to develop a token-based digital wine futures platform based...

A Canadian gold mining corporation agreed to settle SEC charges that the company failed to maintain adequate internal controls sufficient to prevent and detect illegal payments by two African subsidiaries.

Yesterday, the Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit issued its opinion in the challenge to the SEC’s Conflict Minerals Rule.

On July 23, 2013, the US District Court for the District of Columbia found "no problems with the SEC’s rulemaking" by its adoption of the Conflict Minerals Rule pursuant to Section 1502 of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act ("Dodd-Frank").

Division of Corporate Finance of the SEC issued its much-anticipated guidance regarding its conflict minerals rule.

Section 1504 of the Dodd-Frank Act, which was signed into law in 2010, directed the SEC to issue rules requiring resource extraction issuers to report annually on payments made to governments.

The Houston-based Parker Drilling Company entered into a deferred prosecution agreement with the U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to settle allegations that the company violated the antibribery provision of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.

President Trump recently nominated David Zatezalo to be the new head of Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA).

On July 26, 2019, the Federal Mine, Safety, and Health Administration ("FMSHA") issued a new policy letter on emergency refuges for workers in underground mines

The Mine Safety and Health Administration has released a new final rule for the Pattern of Violations status designation which will go into effect March 25, 2013.

Arch Coal has announced that it has successfully completed financial restructuring and has emerged from bankruptcy.

Last month, the New York Times reported on the identification of the largest cluster of advanced black lung cases ever reported. (And lest you think that this is fake news...

When the Bureau of Land Management issued its Supplemental Notice of Proposed Rulemaking related to hydraulic fracturing on federal lands on May 16, 2013, it believed that it had struck a balance between industry and environmental groups on how propriety/trade secret information in fluids used during the hydraulic fracturing process would be protected from public disclosure.