Biden signs law to clean up abandoned mines across the western U.S.
A new federal law may speed up local government, tribal and nonprofit efforts to clean up abandoned mining projects threatening waters across the West.
The law establishes a pilot program in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to permit the decontamination of 15 low-risk, abandoned mines established before 1980, and give out waivers from federal laws that had been blocking cleanups.
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