On February 14, 2017, President Trump approved Congress’ joint resolution to repeal the SEC’s resource extraction disclosure rule. That action effectively brings to a conclusion the SEC’s efforts to ...

New rules issued by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) require resource extraction issuers to disclose payments made to U.S. and foreign governments for the commercial development of ...

Green mining practices are revolutionizing the mining industry, driven by an urgent call for sustainable resource extraction amid climate change. As this eco-friendly shift gains momentum, Vale S.A.

Today we’re looking at the ways resource extraction is impacting the people and the environment in one of the world’s most important tropical forest nations, the Democratic Republic of Congo. The ...

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Materials use is growing by an average of more than 2.3 percent per year. Extraction of Earth's natural resources could surge 60 percent by 2060, imperiling climate goals and economic prosperity, the ...

Such systemic shifts are projected to peak resource extraction by 2040 and then decrease use to only 20% above 2020 levels by 2060. Greenhouse gas emissions would drop by over 80%, stocks of transport ...

While infrastructure expansion has been broadly investigated as a driver of deforestation, the impacts of extractive industry and its interactions with infrastructure investment on forest cover are ...

We derive a measure of national income, defined in terms of maximum sustainable per capita consumption. If population and interest rates are constant, the income generated by natural resource ...