A Northern Arizona pumice mine that boomed when stone-washed jeans were in vogue is closing now, a decade after the government bought it out amid public pressure. The White Vulcan Mine, on the eastern ...
SAN FRANCISCO — From the cotton field in rural India to the local rag bin, a typical pair of blue jeans consumes 919 gallons of water during its life cycle, Levi Strauss & Company says, or enough to ...