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The Swiss Ambassador to Ghana, Simone Ginger, paid a courtesy call on the Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, Emmanuel Armah-Kofi Buah, to explore opportunities for responsible mining partnerships that can drive mutual development between their countries. The meeting took place on July 8, 2025, and focused on viable proposals
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The U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee faced a heated debate over the US Forest Service's budget and wildfire response at a hearing last Thursday. The exchange highlighted the partisan divide on how to manage federal-state partnerships and allocate responsibility for wildfire prevention and management. Members
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The U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee faced a heated debate over the US Forest Service's budget and wildfire response at a hearing last Thursday. The exchange highlighted the partisan divide on how to manage federal-state partnerships and allocate responsibility for wildfire prevention and management. Members
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At a recent Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources hearing, US Forest Service Chief Tom Schultz testified on the agency's efforts to eliminate the Roadless Rule, safeguard timber production, ensure effective wildfire response, develop treatment timelines, and revise Forest Plans in Wyoming. Senator John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) questioned
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The Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, led by Chairman Mike Lee (R-UT), held a hearing to review the President's FY26 budget request for the U.S. Forest Service. A key focus was the recent repeal of the 2001 Roadless Rule, which Senator Lee praised as a
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The US Supreme Court's recent decision lifting a lower court injunction on President Trump's executive order allowing federal agencies to prepare for large-scale reductions in force (RIF) has left national parks and thousands of park staff on the brink of disaster. In response, the National Parks
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U.S. Representative Mike Quigley (IL-05), Co-Chair of the Sustainable Energy and Environment Coalition (SEEC), has concluded his tenth Climate Change Tour of Great Smoky Mountains National Park and announced the re-introduction of his National Parks protection legislation, the Reducing Waste in National Parks Act. This legislation aims to restore
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The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) is working towards expanding the forest cover of the Marikina Watershed by 20 percent within the next three years through a tree planting initiative. The target is to plant three million trees, which will include 1,300 hectares of land within the
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Ghana's Engineers and Planners (EandP) has secured a significant US$100 million investment facility from the ECOWAS Bank for Investment and Development (EBID) to acquire and develop the Black Volta Gold Project in the Upper West Region. This deal marks a pivotal moment in Ghana's mining
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The Government of Rwanda has been endorsed to receive an $18 million (about Rwf25 billion) grant from the Global Environment Facility (GEF) to expand its climate resilience and ecosystem restoration efforts in Southern Province. This funding will support ecosystem restoration and community resilience building in six districts, building on the
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Africa's mining sector is on the cusp of a new era of transparency and global competitiveness, thanks to the adoption of the Pan-African Resources Reporting Code (PARC) by ministers under the Africa Minerals Strategy Group (AMSG). The code aims to standardize mineral resource reporting across the continent, addressing
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Qinghai Province in the People's Republic of China is steadily moving forward in the direction guided by General Secretary Xi Jinping, with a focus on building an ecological civilization highland and accelerating the construction of a green computing and electricity coordinated development demonstration zone. On July 7, Deputy
