The U.S. Energy Information Administration raises concerns about energy-intensive cryptocurrency mining operations, will seek comments on reporting requirements.

Applied Energy Services continúa contaminando el aire, el suelo y el agua en Puerto Rico con cenizas de carbón tóxicas.

Toxic “forever chemicals” remain laxly regulated.

A new “model” bill carves out special protections for crypto miners that can threaten the grid and raise electricity rates.

Debbie Chizewer, Managing Attorney, Midwest Office: “The courts passed the mic to the U.S., and the U.S. handed the mic right back to the courts.”

Jenny Harbine, Managing Attorney, Northern Rockies Office: “In law, you always act in partnership with the clients you’re working with. With William, it was really a question of following his lead. Following the tribe’s lead. He taught us the value of respecting the leadership of people who have been the fiercest advocates and a moral…

The explosive growth of cryptocurrency mining in the U.S. is largely unregulated

The rapid growth of cryptomining threatens to strain Texas’s grid and raise electricity rates for Texans.

Kentucky produces more carbon dioxide pollution from cryptocurrency mining than any other U.S. state.

Cryptocurrency companies are burning waste coal, shredded tires, and fracked gas.

Massive unauthorized coal ash ‘mountain,’ growing for years; PA Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) granted cryptomining polluter Scrubgrass a 4-year leash: toxic coal ash waste allowed to persist

Electron Dam has been harming Chinook salmon, steelhead, and trout for nearly 100 years. With part of the dam gone, the river will flow naturally for the first time in almost a century.

“It’s long past time to update the antiquated 1872 hardrock mining law, but the Mining Regulatory Clarity Act is not the solution.”

A new report recommends guardrails before remining can be a safe and sustainable source for clean energy.

James Yskamp, Attorney, Fossil Fuels Program: “Ohio has injection laws because we take our neighboring states’ waste, we take on most of Pennsylvania’s waste and a lot of West Virginia’s.”

The bill would make it easier for mining companies and individuals to stake claim on public lands without the existence of valid mineral claim

The growth of cryptomining threatens to keep polluting coal-fired power plants active, strain the grid, and raise electricity rates for Hoosiers.

As the clean energy transition drives mineral demand, the groups wrote that the Clean Energy Minerals Reform Act would update the 1872 Mining Law to address modern challenges.