Bureau of Land Management approves lithium exploration in Malheur County

BLM has greenlit HiTech Minerals' five-year lithium exploration in Malheur County, impacting over 7,200 acres of public land.
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Critical mineral: BLM approves lithium exploration drill sites in southeast Oregon’s Malheur County

The Bureau of Land Management said Thursday it recently approved the expansion of lithium exploration activities in southern ...

A Loophole Allows Ranchers to Renew Grazing Permits With Little Scrutiny of the Environmental Impact

The post A Loophole Allows Ranchers to Renew Grazing Permits With Little Scrutiny of the Environmental Impact appeared first on ProPublica.
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Fargo postpones vote on annexing AI data center land; Harwood mayor tells big city to 'back off'

FARGO — The Fargo City Commission will hold off on deciding whether to annex property north of the city that includes a $3 billion artificial intelligence center near Harwood, North Dakota. The ...
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Trump nominates former New Mexico lawmaker to lead Bureau of Land Management

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Republican Party of New Mexico Chairman Steve ...
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New $615M Leesburg data center land sale is first to top $6M per acre

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Preview this article 1 min The sale closed one business day ...
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Project Blue developer applies for 600 acres in Marana to build data center campus

A developer has applied to build a 600-acre data center campus in Marana, a town north of Tucson. The project plans to use an air-cooled, closed-loop system to reduce water consumption for cooling.
CNN

Justice Department investigating fraud allegations in Black Lives Matter movement, AP sources say

Critics of the nonprofit foundation, and of the BLM movement broadly, have accused organizers of not being transparent about how it was spending the donations. That criticism grew louder after BLM ...
Pew Research Center

What we know about energy use at U.S. data centers amid the AI boom

Artificial intelligence has developed rapidly in recent years, with tech companies investing billions of dollars in data centers to help train and run AI models. The expansion of data centers has ...
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Nearly 100 Bureau of Land Management employees to be laid off

ST. GEORGE, Utah (KUTV) — Nearly 100 employees from Utah's Bureau of Land Management will be laid off, according to a court filing by the Department of the Interior. The Bureau of Land Management ...
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Google spends $42M on 948 acres in Monroe County for massive data center project | Here's what we know

MONROE COUNTY, Ga. — Google has finalized the purchase of 948 acres along Rumble Road near Interstate 75 in Monroe County, paying $42.5 million for land that could house a future data center. The tech ...
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Trump nominates former New Mexico lawmaker to lead Bureau of Land Management | OUT WEST ROUNDUP

BILLINGS — President Donald Trump nominated a former lawmaker from New Mexico on Nov. 5 to oversee the management of vast public lands that are playing a central role in Republican attempts to ramp up ...