Requires public notice, NEPA analysis, comment period and public hearing. Targets projects designed to improve environmental conditions. Utah has an estimated 17,000 abandoned mine openings scattered ...

Utah has an estimated 17,000 abandoned mine openings scattered across the state that should be addressed. New legislation signed into law and announced Thursday may lend a hand to that effort ...

A new law decades in the making could finally lead to the cleanup of some of the thousands of abandoned mines in Colorado that leak toxic metals and acid into the headwaters of the rivers that ...

The Good Samaritan Remediation of Abandoned Hardrock Mines Act, signed into law by President Joe Biden on Dec. 19, is the first step in removing burdensome legal liabilities for groups and state ...

President Joe Biden recently signed a bipartisan bill aimed at cleaning up abandoned mines around the country, including those in Arizona. Senator Mark Kelly was among three senators who created ...

Dan Lopez has spent the last 10 years exploring the dark abandoned mines that lurk beneath the surface of the country's Northeast region. He experienced black damp (a mine gas incapable of ...

A new federal law may speed up local government, tribal and nonprofit efforts to clean up abandoned mining projects threatening waters across the West, including in New Mexico. The law establishes a ...

Sign up to receive High Country News’ email newsletters and get on-the-ground reporting and investigations delivered to your inbox each week. In September, a coal ...

Drainage from an abandoned mine in Clear Creek County, Colo. stains a creek bed a sickly shade of orange in 2018. A bill that cleared its final hurdle in Congress this week would make it easier ...

2781, the “Good Samaritan Remediation of Abandoned Hardrock Mines Act of 2024,” marking ... Celeste Maloy (R-Utah), Mary Peltola (D-Alaska) and Susie Lee (D-Nev.), who introduced a companion ...