With little attention in the media, except in a few Western states, former President Joe Biden on Dec. 19 signed the Good Samaritan Remediation of Abandoned Hardrock Mines Act. It was bipartisan ...

Sen. Mitt Romney recently co-sponsored the Good Samaritan Remediation of Abandoned Hardrock Mines Act. There are 26 total co-sponsors, 13 Republicans and 13 Democrats, from across the country.

The pending bill, the Good Samaritan Remediation of Abandoned Hardrock Mines Act of 2024, would create a pilot program for up to 15 remediation projects led by good Samaritan organizations.

The Good Samaritan Remediation of Abandoned Hardrock Mines Act, signed into law by President Joe Biden on Dec. 19, is the first step in removing burdensome legal liabilities for groups and state ...

The Good Samaritan Remediation of Abandoned Hardrock Mines Act would begin to address those shortcomings. “Superfund works at these really, really bad sites like in Bonita Peak,” Churchwell said.

Rep. Matt Cartwright from Scranton and Rep. Glenn Thompson from State College have recently introduced the RECLAIM Act, which provides $300 million to clean up and reclaim abandoned mines.

On Thursday, July 25, four U.S. Representatives introduced the Monitoring, Investigating, Navigating and Explaining Subsidence (MINES) Act ...

The Miner’s Act, the first law of its kind since 1977, requires miners to carry two hours of oxygen -- in small packs called self-contained rescue-devices, or SCSRs -- with them into mines ...