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[https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/world/asia/myanmar-mining-thailand-china.html by Hannah Beech 11/6/25 The New York Times] | [https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/world/asia/myanmar-mining-thailand-china.html by Hannah Beech 11/6/25 The New York Times] | ||
Unregulated rare earth mining in Myanmar, directed by Chinese enterprises, is poisoning the Kok and at least three other rivers that flow through Thailand. For months, levels of arsenic and other toxic metals have spiked to dangerous levels in Thai waterways, including the Mekong, government data shows. | Unregulated rare earth mining in Myanmar, directed by Chinese enterprises, is poisoning the Kok and at least three other rivers that flow through Thailand. For months, levels of arsenic and other toxic metals have spiked to dangerous levels in Thai waterways, including the Mekong, government data shows. | ||
=====Trump May Approve Strip Mining on Tennessee’s Protected Cumberland Plateau===== | |||
[https://insideclimatenews.org/news/13022020/tennessee-coal-mining-trump-administration-cumberland-plateau/ by JAMES BRUGGERS 13/2/20 Inside Climate News] | |||
LAFOLLETTE, Tennessee—Even as the nation’s demand for coal tumbles, the Trump administration is considering a permit that would allow strip mining on protected ridgelines in Tennessee’s Cumberland Plateau over the objection of environmental groups and the state’s Republican attorney general. | |||
