A proposed absorption of the West Virginia University mining engineering into its petroleum and natural gas engineering school has been tabled indefinitely by school officials. A plan was originally announced earlier this year, part of wide-ranging staff cuts at the Appalachian institution. A walk-out was organized in September to oppose the move, and many mining engineering alumni have spoken up…
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MS&T researchers get EPA grant for environmental research
Researchers at the Missouri University of Science and Technology have been awarded more than $850,000 for work on pollution and waste related to pollution and critical mineral mining in Alaska and Missouri. The Pollution Prevention (P2) grant is from the Environmental Protection Agency, developed after the Energy Act of 2020 defined critical minerals as non-fuel minerals vital to the economic…
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