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Press Release of Senator CantwellCantwell: Mining Reform is Long OverdueEnvironmental and Community Health Issues Must Be Addressed Tuesday, July 14,2009 “Because the 1872 Mining Law interprets mining as the ‘highest and best’ use of public lands, federal land managers are literally unauthorized from denying any mining project that could have harmful affects on the environment and other competing public uses of the land,” said Cantwell. “In At the hearing, Cantwell pointed out that in a recent Environmental Impact Statement for a proposed gold mine in In the last 20 years, 16 modern mines have gone bankrupt, leaving the federal government with the clean-up bill. A 2003 report from the The Washington Department of Ecology estimates that there are 3,800 abandoned mines in # # #
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