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Testimony in favor of HR 785 - authorizing use of SMCRA funds for abandoned hardrock mines
PUBLICATION DATE: February 17, 2012
AUTHOR: Lauren Pagel
SUMMARY: Earthworks reluctantly endorses using funds generated by the coal mine reclamation fee to clean up abandoned hardrock mines -- only because there is no similar dedicated fund for abandoned hardrock mine reclamation.
![Abandoned Mine Lands testimony before the U.S. House Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/dentonfracking/20141030020057im_/http://www.earthworksaction.org/images/made/images/uploads/pub_thumbs/20110714-Lauren-Pagel-AML-Testimony-500_70_91_s.gif)
Abandoned Mine Lands testimony before the U.S. House Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources
PUBLICATION DATE: July 14, 2011
AUTHOR: Lauren Pagel
![EARTHWORKS Fact Sheet: Hardrock Mining and Reclamation Act of 2009](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/dentonfracking/20141030020057im_/http://www.earthworksaction.org/images/made/images/uploads/pub_thumbs/HR_699_introduced-500_70_97_s.jpg)
EARTHWORKS Fact Sheet: Hardrock Mining and Reclamation Act of 2009
PUBLICATION DATE: March 2, 2009
AUTHOR: Lauren Pagel
SUMMARY: EARTHWORKS' fact sheet for HR 699, Rep. Rahall's 1872 mining law reform.
![Hardrock Mining and Reclamation Act of 2007](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/dentonfracking/20141030020057im_/http://www.earthworksaction.org/images/made/images/uploads/pub_thumbs/EWfs_hr2262postvote-500_70_97_s.jpg)
Hardrock Mining and Reclamation Act of 2007
PUBLICATION DATE: February 22, 2008
AUTHOR: Lauren Pagel
![Canadian Mining Companies: Costing U.S. Taxpayers and the Environment](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/dentonfracking/20141030020057im_/http://www.earthworksaction.org/images/made/images/uploads/pub_thumbs/CanCoFS-500_70_91_s.jpg)
Canadian Mining Companies: Costing U.S. Taxpayers and the Environment
PUBLICATION DATE: September 5, 2006
AUTHOR: Bonnie Gestring
![Burden of Gilt](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/dentonfracking/20141030020057im_/http://www.earthworksaction.org/images/made/images/uploads/pub_thumbs/REPORT-Burden-of-Gilt-cover-500x647_70_91_s.jpg)
Burden of Gilt
PUBLICATION DATE: June 1, 1993
AUTHOR: James Lyon, T. Hilliard, T. Bethell
SUMMARY: The legacy of environmental damage from abandoned mines, and what America should do about it.
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