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Hardrock Mining and Fossil Fuels Extraction on America’s Public Lands Get Failing Grades in Fair Share Scorecard

Gold King Mine

Water flows through a series of retention ponds near the Gold King Mine in Silverton, Colorado, August 12, 2015. SOURCE: AP/Brennan Linsley

Washington, D.C. —(ENEWSPF)–August 17, 2015.  Amid growing public concern over abandoned hardrock mines and the management of resource extraction on America’s public lands, the Center for American Progress and the Center for Western Priorities today released a new report that assesses the relative costs to taxpayers of six types of energy and mineral…

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