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The U.S. Forest Service has recommended lifting the mining ban around the Grand Canyon. (AP Photo/Rick Hossman,File)
Energy and Environment

Appeals court keeps Obama ban on uranium mining around Grand Canyon

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Two Utah Republicans, Reps. John Curtis and Chris Stewart, support President Trump's decision to split Bears Ears (pictured) and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments into several parks and aim to enshrine the changes into law, while adding new rules and protections. (U.S. Bureau of Land Management via Wikimedia Commons)
Energy and Environment

Utah Republicans introduce bills to enshrine Trump monument rollback into law

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The West Virginia Democrat supports abiding by laws that have strengthened the Environmental Protection Agency's pollution authority over the last 20 years. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
Energy and Environment

Trump could suffer backlash on environmental rollback, Joe Manchin warns

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David Zatezalo, a former executive with the mining firm Rhino Resources, was approved 52-46 on a party-line vote to be assistant secretary of labor for mine safety at the Mine Safety and Health Administration of the Department of Labor. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File)
Energy and Environment

Senate approves Trump’s controversial nominee to lead mine safety agency

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President Trump isn't scoring any points from conservative groups, with his former Energy Department transition chief coming out against the Rick Perry plan.
Energy and Environment

Trump’s energy agenda under attack from Democrats — and Republicans

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This Sunday, April 16, 2017, photo provided by the National Park Service shows Tapeats Creek in Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona. (National Park Service via AP)
Energy and Environment

Trump looks to reverse Obama policy banning uranium mining around Grand Canyon

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Amoke rises from the stacks of the main plant facility at the Navajo Generating Station, as seen from Lake Powell in Page, Ariz. The coal-fired power plant in far northern Arizona that was built to deliver water to the state's desert region is set to retire in 2019 unless a new owner can be found. (AP File Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
Energy and Environment

Trump administration scrambles to save largest coal plant in the West

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FILE - In this Sunday, Jan. 18, 2015, file photo, Abdul Qadir Timor, director of archaeology at the Ministry of Information and Culture, left, looks at the view of Mes Aynak valley, some 40 kilometers (25 miles) southwest of Kabul, Afghanistan. The Afghan government is trying to grab President Donald Trump's attention by dangling its massive, untouched wealth of minerals, including lithium, the silvery metal used in mobile phone and computer batteries considered essential to modern life. But tapping into that wealth, which also includes coal, copper, rare earths and far more, is likely a long way off, with security worsening the past year and Trump's policy on the war still not known. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul, file)
Beltway Confidential

Trump’s excuse for staying in Afghanistan (mining minerals) is a massive mistake

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Former West Virginia coal mining executive Don Blankenship was convicted and served jail time for attempting to violate federal mine safety standards after the death of 29 miners in 2010.
Energy and Environment

Supreme Court rejects former coal CEO’s appeal over mining disaster

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Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke is looking to focus on energy policy. (Graeme Jennings/Examiner)
Energy and Environment

Ryan Zinke focuses on energy development on public lands as new committee starts

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