Experts warn of impacts to United States from Ukraine invasion
“Spikes in energy, gas prices and especially oil,” Ken Osgood, a Professor of History at the Colorado School of Mines told KRDO News.
February 24, 2022
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Ukraine experts wonder how far Russia will go in attack
Professor Kenneth Osgood describes the war Russia started in Ukraine as heartbreaking. The School of Mines professor worked on the Ukraine desk at the State Department in the 90s and even lived in Russia for a while.
February 24, 2022
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Funding announced for new USGS facility on Mines campus
Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland, U.S. Senators Michael Bennet and John Hickenlooper, U.S. Rep. Ed Perlmutter and Colorado School of Mines President Paul Johnson announced Feb. 18 the authorization and initial funding for the construction of a ....
February 23, 2022
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Mexico’s gas flaring soars, igniting fears for its climate goals
NASA satellite images of flare sites across Mexico, analyzed for Reuters by scientists at the Earth Observation Group of the Colorado School of Mines, showed that gas flaring has dramatically increased under Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez ....
February 23, 2022
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Tension and trade-offs between protecting biodiversity and avoiding climate change
Chris Dunn and Morgan Bazilian of the Payne Institute for Public Policy authored this opinion piece about the issues in tension at the nexus of critical minerals, environment and the climate.
February 20, 2022
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$240M USGS facility will be built at School of Mines
U.S. Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland and members of Colorado’s congressional delegation announced the construction of a state-of-the-art facility for the United States Geological Survey on the Colorado School of Mines campus.
February 18, 2022
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USGS Getting $167 Million For New Research Building In Golden
Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland helped make the official announcement on Friday at the Colorado School of Mines campus in Golden
February 18, 2022
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The White House wants to transition to a green economy, which is tricky without mines
Jordy Lee manages the supply chain transparency initiative at the Colorado School of Mines. He says over the past several decades, the U.S. has essentially outsourced mining, largely because of environmental concerns.
February 8, 2022
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Projects to Capture Carbon Emissions Get New Boost Despite Dismal Record
Globally, industries will have to raise carbon-capture capacity by a factor of 50 to 100 times over what is in the development pipeline to achieve what the International Energy Agency estimates is needed to reach “net-zero” carbon emissions by 2070 ....
February 7, 2022
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How important is a Twin Metals mine to supply critical minerals?
"The renewable energy transition is not going to happen without the mining industry. That's just a fact,” said Jordy Lee, who manages the Supply Chain Transparency Initiative at the Colorado School of Mines.
February 4, 2022
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Colorado oil and gas companies can hide some chemicals used in fracking if they claim 'trade secrets'
"These are man-made chemicals. As I always say, since nature did not make them, nature does not know how to break them," said Shubham Vyas, Associate Professor of Chemistry at the Colorado School of Mines.
February 1, 2022
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Deadly Colorado blaze renews focus on underground coal fires
Such fires can be ignited by lightning, humans and even spontaneously at temperatures as low as 86 degrees Fahrenheit (30 degrees Celsius), said Jurgen Brune, a Colorado School of Mines engineering professor.