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mining reclamation

  • Conservation Advocacy Featured

    TU urges Congress to pass Good Samaritan legislation

    These mines not only pose physical and public health hazards, but tens of thousands of them are polluting the environment

    New law would enable groups like TU to clean up abandoned mines without assuming liability for their pollution Lauren Duncan, a Colorado-based mine reclamation specialist for Trout Unlimited, testified Tuesday before the House Natural Resources Committee’s Subcommittee on Energy and Minerals Resources. The oversight hearing, titled “The Toxic Legacy of the Mining Law of 1872,” evaluated mining-related…