Author: Jonathan Wood
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Bill would enable Good Samaritans to cleanup mines
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Jonathan Wood Throughout the western United States, abandoned mines, including an estimated 23,000 in Colorado, release toxic pollutants into the environment every day, impairing water quality, fouling fish habitat and undermining public health. Conservation groups, mining companies, and other private parties would voluntarily clean up many of these mines, but federal policy makes it excessively…
