Congressional initiative would end billions in public land and mineral giveaways, protect scarce water, create jobs

Protect our clean water by prohibiting mines that would generate water pollution in perpetuity. The current law contains no environmental provisions, even though the EPA has identified mining as the nation's biggest toxic polluter. Research has found that over 75% of modern mines have polluted rivers, streams and groundwater, and an increasing number of mines will result in water pollution that lasts for hundreds to thousands of years or "in perpetuity."
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