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 ...

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency has issued a new permit and rules for recreational miners who use small-scale suction dredging equipment to explore for gold in rivers and ...

OAKLAND, Calif. (CN) - The Karuk Tribe and nine environmental groups claim in court that the California Department of Fish and Game approved suction dredge mining in state rivers, again, without ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif.—California Gov. Jerry Brown late Wednesday continued the current moratorium on the controversial gold-mining technique known as “suction dredge mining” until the state develops ...

A coalition of commercial fishing groups, environmentalists and the Karuk Indian tribe are suing the state in an effort to prevent it from enacting new regulations on using suction dredging to mine ...