Brazilian police with support from Interpol have destroyed 277 dredges used in illegal gold mining along the Madeira River in ...

A long-simmering conflict over individual versus public rights has converged on the banks of the rivers of southwest Oregon, stirring resentment between gold miners and environmentalists. In question ...

Mamamayang Liberal Party-list Rep. Leila de Lima has called for an investigation into a Chinese company’s dredging operations ...

In an echo of nugget-chasers past, a new gold rush is under way on some Northern California rivers -- one that’s generating a wealth of controversy. Wildlife proponents say the mining endangers salmon ...

The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (“Ninth Circuit”) in a November 20th Opinion addressed an issue involving the applicability of the Section 402 Clean Water Act National ...

A bill that aims to improve water quality and protections for endangered salmon by restricting suction dredge mining met with the Senate’s approval Thursday. The bill, HB 1261, would prohibit suction ...

IDAHO, USA — One resource is crucial for Idaho's irrigation and recreation: water. The liquid lifelines of Idaho had been the subject of a years-long legal battle over a dredge mining operation in ...

URGING Malacañang to take immediate action, a House deputy minority leader on Tuesday filed a measure seeking an urgent congressional inquiry into the large-scale dredging and extraction activities of ...

Even though the Gold Rush is long gone, the fight over the valuable mineral rages on in California. For over a decade, gold miners have been battling with the state government and conservationists in ...

House Deputy Minority Leader and Mamamayang Liberal (ML) Party-list Rep. Leila de Lima on Tuesday filed a resolution seeking ...

Sen. Guy Palumbo (D-Maltby) has worked on several sustainability-focused bills this year as vice chair of the Environment, Energy and Technology committee, including clean fuels, solar power, electric ...

The big ideas get the most attention, but they aren’t the only solutions that are required. A draft of a long-awaited federal report on a proposal to remove four dams on Washington’s portion of the ...