“Regulations and the guidance from the federal government is extremely rigorous,” said Anna Littlefield, a research associate at the Payne Institute for Public Policy at the Colorado School of Mines who works with Carbon America.

It’s worth noting mining lithium won’t immediately solve everything, said Jordy Lee, a program manager at the Colorado School of Mines’ Payne Institute for Public Policy.

The steel lining of oil wells can corrode as they age, leaving open the possibility that long-lasting chemicals used during fracking could migrate to aquifers over time, said John Spear, a Colorado School of Mines professor who studies subsurface ....

Morgan Bazilian, director of the Payne Institute for Public Policy, was a co-author of this opinion piece about the importance of protecting vulnerable people from killer heat without destroying the environment.

Matt Siegfried, assistant professor of geophysics, and Mines Geophysics alum Chloe Gustafson spent 61 days living in tents on an Antarctic ice stream to collect data about the land under half a mile of ice beneath their feet. Here, they explain what ....

The old way, or current way, uses thermographic cameras that can see methane. But to capture that, operators rely on either drones, satellites or people driving around trucks with the cameras, said Morgan Bazilian, director of the Payne Institute ....

"There's a huge disconnect in this country about metals refining," said Corby Anderson, who teaches metallurgy at the Colorado School of Mines. "And yet the public expects the materials to be available to do the things they want."

Morgan Bazilian, who heads up the Payne Institute at the Colorado School of Mines, said, “I don’t know if that has any precedent at all.”

“We need to find a way to make these buildings earthquake-resistant, since it’s a new building type, and nobody’s ever done this before,” says Shiling Pei, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering at the Colorado School of Mines and ....

Ken Osgood, professor of history at Colorado School of Mines, co-wrote this opinion piece with Jeremi Suri of the University of Texas at Austin.

Walter G. Copan, vice president for research and technology transfer at Colorado School of Mines, wrote this opinion piece about the importance of protecting the Bayh-Dole Act.

Fabian Jimenez, a freshman studying civil engineering at Colorado School of Mines, is the winner of the 2021 Emerging Community Leader Medal.