by Tamara Pearson | Apr 18, 2026 | disappearances, disappearances in Mexico, Environment, Extractivism, Indigenous communities, Indigenous Resistance, mexico, Militarization, minerals, Mining, News, Resistance, tech industry, Water, weapons, Weapons industry
The U.S. and Mexico have established a mining agreement which has Indigenous and other residents of the Sierra Norte mountains, as well as activists around Mexico, worried. Announced on February 4, the U.S.-Mexico Action Plan on Critical Minerals aims to guarantee the U.S.’s supply of minerals for its arms industry, technology like data centers and smartphones, and the so-called energy…
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by Wyatt Myskow | Dec 20, 2025 | Climate Change, Donald Trump, Drinking Water, Extractivism, Mining, national monuments, News, oil and gas, Oil and Gas Drilling, public land, public lands, Trump Administration, Water, Water Shortage
This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, non-partisan news organization that covers climate, energy and the environment. Sign up for their newsletter here. The 31 national monuments designated since the Clinton administration, which could be downsized as the Trump administration pushes to open more public lands to extractive industries, safeguard clean water for…
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