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The Commodities Note: Fall in US gas flaring gives cause for optimism
"In the past 12 months, gas flaring in the US has actually declined by 70 per cent, according to numbers provided by the Earth Observation Group at the Payne Institute for Public Policy," co-wrote Morgan Bazilian, director of the Payne Institute.
August 11, 2020
Miners need more engineers to meet new tailings dam safety standard
“Most companies are realizing that there is a skills gap, because you have senior people moving out and not enough younger people moving in,” said mining engineering professor Priscilla Nelson, who is setting up a new tailings program at the Colorado ....
August 5, 2020
Many hoped the Gold King Mine spill would bring change. Five years later, they’re still waiting.
Linda Figueroa, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at the Colorado School of Mines whose area of focus includes abandoned mines, remembers advocating for action in the wake of the Gold King spill. She kept running into bureaucratic ....
August 5, 2020
