JUSTTHENEWS (Kevin Killough) - US has enough coal for 600 years, new federal data shows
Of 34 miles on federal land, 14 are in Wyoming, and the Cowboy State holds 87% of the reported coal reserves associated with active mines on federal land.
AXIOS (Erin Alberty) - Trump cuts nearly 3 million acres from 2 Utah national monuments
President Trump is decimating both Grand Staircase-Escalante and Bears Ears national monuments. Why it matters: Monday's orders reduce protections on nearly 3 million acres in southern Utah , affecting more than 90% of each monument's area. Driving the news: Grand Staircase-Escalante will lose nearly 1.7 of its 1.87 million acres - Bears Ears ' 1.36 million acres will be reduced to about 121,000. The big picture: The cuts are far more drastic than in 2017, when Trump eliminated almost half of Grand Staircase-Escalante and 85% of Bears Ears in what was then the largest reduction of federal land protections in U.S. history. - The Biden administration restored the previous boundaries in 2021 and added 12,000 acres to Bears Ears.…
DAILYCALLER (Spencer Lombardo) - Feds Eye Delaware-Sized Mineral Deposit And Virginia Might Block It
'part of President Donald Trump's ongoing effort to make America mine her own minerals again'
NYTIMES (Francesca Regalado and Muktita Suhartono) - One of Five Gold Miners Is Rescued From Laos Cave After More Than a Week
An international effort to free the trapped men brought attention to the country’s informal mines, where panning for gold can pay more than minimum wage.
NPR (Ellis Juhlin) - Montana could soon ease restrictions on mining precious metals
Restrictions on mining for precious metals like gold in Montana that were put in place 30 years ago could soon be relaxed as the mining industry makes a comeback in the U.S.
REDSTATE (Ward Clark) - Exciting Times for Alaska Energy: Pikka Project Now Reaching First Oil
NYTIMES (Elian Peltier, Zia ur-Rehman, Christiaan Triebert, Pablo Robles and Asim Hafeez) - An Insurgency Threatens U.S. Mining Ambitions in Pakistan
Attacks by the Baloch Liberation Army could derail Pakistan’s plans for a billion-dollar mining deal with the Trump administration.
NEWSNATIONNOW (Nancy Loo) - Inside the Navy retrieval plan for Artemis II splashdown and recovery
"We’ll push in to recover the astronauts one by one," Lt. Julia Buckner, a Seahawk helicopter pilot, said.
STONEZONE (Roger Stone) - FIRE IN THE MOUNTAINS: AMERICA DOES NOT LEAVE ITS OWN BEHIND
This Holy Week and Easter weekend, in the jagged and unforgiving mountains of Iran, the United States executed a rescue operation that will stand as a modern testament to courage, ingenuity, and unyielding resolve. This was not merely a military maneuver it was a moral act. It was the embodiment of a sacred promise between […] The post FIRE IN THE MOUNTAINS: AMERICA DOES NOT LEAVE ITS OWN BEHIND appeared first on StoneZone .
This Holy Week and Easter weekend, in the jagged and unforgiving mountains of Iran, the United States executed a rescue operation that will stand as a modern testament to courage, ingenuity, and unyielding resolve. This was not merely a military maneuver it was a moral act. It was the embodiment of a sacred promise between a nation and those who defend it. An American F15 Strike Eagle had been brought down over hostile territory during a period of intensifying conflict. One crew member was recovered quickly. The other, a seasoned weapons systems officer and senior colonel, was left alone in a landscape that might as well have been a battlefield from antiquity. Injured, hunted, and pursued by enemy forces motivated by bounty and ideology,…Open
AXIOS (Colin Demarest) - U.S. launched "air armada" to rescue F-15 crew in Iran
The U.S. military employed hundreds of people and some 176 aircraft over the weekend to rescue the crew of an Air Force F-15E Strike Eagle downed deep inside Iran . The big picture: This "air armada," as Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Dan Caine described it at the White House on Monday, helped pull off a pair of "incredibly dangerous" extractions, bringing home the pilot and weapon-system officer (WSO). - Their callsigns were Dude 44A and Dude 44B. Among the aircraft used were bombers, fighters, refueling tankers, helicopters and unmanned systems . - Caine name-dropped the A-10 Warthog, HC-130 Combat King II and HH-60 Jolly Green II. He also hinted at "remotely piloted" and "tactical" drones. - "The courage demonstrated by both the pilot…