Sentence examples for mine cleanup from inspiring English sources
Equally important, regulators could hold Patriot's top executives liable for completing the mine cleanup.
Mine reform advocates favor the Rahall bill, mostly because it would raise more money for abandoned mine cleanup.
The nation has asked for $500 million for mine cleanup, but the money has not materialized, said Eugene Esplain, one of two officials with the Navajo E.P.A. responsible for patrolling an area the size of West Virginia.
One of the Department of Energy's biggest priorities is a billion-dollar uranium mine cleanup that is under way in Moab, Utah, and that received $108 million in federal stimulus money and the backing of nine congressmen.
EPA spent roughly $2.2 billion between 1998 and 2007 working on mine cleanup projects across the country, while BLM and the Forest Service spent a combined $259 million to target mine pollution on public lands.
For instance, he wants to get rid of a rule somebody in Congress inserted to make sure states will continue to get federal mine cleanup aid even after all the mines are clean.
An unspecified portion of the money generated by these royalties would be placed into a fund to help pay for abandoned mine cleanups.
Miles says a "big part of the puzzle" on mine cleanups is "progressive rehab" – work done by miners as they go.
Environmentalists who have fought long and expensive battles over mine cleanups and timber harvesting are not optimistic that they can stop the initiatives.
A million tons of mine waste, containing lows levels of radioactivity, are already piled up at dump sites around the state, and disputes are growing over promised mine cleanups.
The alliance, to be announced Wednesday, is intended to overcome hurdles that have slowed mine cleanups: the intermingling of public and private land in the most affected areas and the provisions of the Superfund law that make those who work at mine waste sites, whether to re-mine them or clean them, potentially liable for their pollution.
