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New Heinrich law to tackle abandoned, toxic mines used to start first clean up project in the West

The United States has hundreds of thousands of abandoned hardrock mines and at least 33,000 posing environmental hazards, but one is finally getting cleaned up thanks to a new law New Mexico’s Senator Martin Heinrich passed establishing a pilot permitting program specifically designed to incentivize cleanups. The bipartisan Good Samaritan Remediation of Abandoned Hardrock Mines […]

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