natural resources

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In California, state legislators are debating how to protect residents and natural resources without creating so much red tape that developers go elsewhere, taking their jobs and taxable earnings with them.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 23, 2026

Their book may be wrong on some issues, but it is hard to dispute that the earth has finite natural resources, limited human carrying capacity and that excessive growth has resulted in environmental destruction.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 23, 2026

"Zimbabwe must learn from countries like Norway, Botswana and Kuwait, which safeguard their natural resources through firm, consistent and strategic policy frameworks," he said.

From Barron's • Feb. 26, 2026

These fall into major categories so that some critical minerals, metals, energy products, natural resources, food crops, pharmaceuticals, electronics, cars and trucks, and aerospace products will be exempted.

From BBC • Feb. 20, 2026

Still, coal miners in the Allegheny and Kiskiminetas river valleys, a region rich with natural resources, seemed stuck in poverty.

From "Fannie Never Flinched" by Mary Cronk Farrell