Bookmark Lawsuits piling up to challenge “Energy Emergency”
The Trump administration has moved at lightning speed to lower barriers for coal. This includes rewriting or rescinding numerous environmental rules, slicing the red tape required to permit new coal mines, accelerating leasing of federal coal, and embedding tax or other incentives for coal production and use. The administration has also erected new barriers for wind and solar, all to change the economics of fossil fuels and renewable energy. Read More
Conflict Stirs Diesel Supply Fears for Australian Mines
Australia’s coal and iron ore mining industries could be approaching a diesel fuel supply crisis, as the Middle Eastern conflict disrupts crude oil trade flows, exacerbated by panic buying by some Australian motorists. Read More
Pope Leo XIV meets executives at the Vatican to discuss ethical mining
ROME, Italy -- Pope Leo XIV met key executives in the mining and energy sector in the Vatican over the weekend to discuss ethical approaches to the resource sector, in the context of a synodal meeting aimed at fostering dialogue between the Church and industry at a time of growing global demand for critical minerals. Read More