Officials from Dakota County and the Met Council had asked for a court review of the project’s environmental impact statement.

FREEDOM TWP., MI — A sand and gravel mining firm has plans to extract millions of tons of materials in a rural community west of Ann Arbor. Stone Co. of Michigan, also known as Michigan Paving and ...

I am deeply concerned by the continued increase in illegal sand and gravel mining across various parts of Namibia. These activities are being undertaken without the required Environmental Clearance ...

"The Santa Cruz Small Craft Harbor was once a wetland, known after statehood as Woods Lagoon," writes columnist Ross Eric Gibson. "It was named for the colorful Woods family." ...

Abandoned oil and gas wells pose environmental and public health risks. For three decades, the state has mismanaged funds earmarked for minimizing the threat.

The sun is rising in Kenya’s Kajiado county, just outside Nairobi, and a truck is rumbling over dusty ground towards a riverbank. Young men guide the driver to a parking spot and then spring into ...

The bucket is all that remains of Big Muskie, once the largest single-bucket digging machine ever created. It tells a ...

The proposed sand mine would require the county to rezone the property from rural preservation to resource extraction ...

SALT LAKE COUNTY, Utah — Hundreds of frustrated members of the Millcreek community filled their city hall Wednesday night, with city leaders standing right beside residents as they spoke out against a ...

KRONENWETTER, Wis. (WSAW) - The Village of Kronenwetter reversed a planning committee decision in a 3-2 vote with two abstentions, approving a conditional use permit for a sand extraction site. In ...

As the ice in the Ohio River and local waterways continues to melt and break up, boat traffic is returning. Heather Sands, ...