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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Oregon’s suction dredge miners, recently banned from gold mining in salmon-bearing streams, are taking a new tack. They’ve formed a nonprofit, called StreamSavers, and are asking the Legislature to ...

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 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 ...

Some of the most heavily mined ground in Baker County will soon be off limits to any future searches for gold.

Today the lone surviving dredge stands as the centerpiece of one of Oregon's newest state parks. (Photo/Mark Highberger). Not long ago in the old Sumpter Valley, a mechanical beast the size of an ...