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Earthjustice weighs legal options to stop Chilean-owned Twin Metals mine

Congress voted to remove protections from mining in the watershed of the treasured Boundary Waters wilderness.

How lawmakers are clearing the way for mining and fossil fuel development across the western U.S. and Alaska.

The National Parks Conservation Association calls for halt to operations damaging park landscape at the formerly decommissioned Colosseum Mine

Plaintiff National Parks Conservation Association challenges Defendants’ reversal of position permitting renewed industrial mining operations at the decommissioned Colosseum Mine in Mojave National Preserve without the environmental review and approvals required by federal law.

Montana and Idaho waters endure harmful pollution from upstream Canadian coal mines

A Montana District Court upheld Montana’s selenium water quality standard for Lake Koocanusa (Koocanusa Reservoir), affirming the science-based limits necessary to protect fish and other aquatic life.

Organizations fear harm to waters, wilderness area, and ESA-protected species

A coalition of local and national organizations filed suit over the Trump administration’s fast-tracked approval of the Libby Exploration Project in northwestern Montana’s Cabinet Mountains.

A coalition of local and national organizations filed suit over the Trump administration’s fast-tracked approval of the Libby Exploration Project in northwestern Montana’s Cabinet Mountains.

Groups claim Montana DEQ failed to analyze impacts to, water, agriculture, wildlife, climate and the community

Several Montana groups appealed a District Court decision that failed to address the harmful impacts of the Bull Mountains Coal Mine’s AM6 expansion.

Conservation groups sued the Trump administration over its approval of a major expansion of the Bull Mountains Coal Mine in Montana.

Thanks to last year’s victory in a challenge brought by Southwest Alaska Tribes, the agencies had to supplement the mine’s environmental study to examine the risks of a larger tailings spill

The industry doesn’t exist yet beyond a few small projects. Here’s why it should never take off.

The One Big Beautiful Bill Act allocated an unprecedented level of funding for critical minerals projects that amount to little more than a slush fund for the mining industry.

In support of the rights of Tribal people, protecting ancestral lands, and requiring meaningful Tribal consultation and public participation in mine permitting

Roadless Area Conservation Act would solidify protections for national forests