RAPID CITY, S.D. (South Dakota Searchlight) – The federal government approved a 20-year ban Thursday on new mining-related activity in a portion of South Dakota’s Black Hills.

El Salvador's Congress has approved a law that would lift the country’s seven-year-old ban on mining for metals.

El Salvador's legislature overturned a seven-year-old ban on metals mining on Monday, a move that President Nayib Bukele had pushed for to boost economic growth, but that environmental groups had opposed.

The country banned mining in 2017, a move Bukele called “absurd”: His party holds 57 out of 60 seats and overturned the ban easily. After transforming El Salvador’s security situation in his first term — his draconian anti-gang policies locked up 2% of the population with little regard for human rights,