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Polluting the Future

PUBLICATION DATE: May 1, 2013

AUTHOR: Bonnie Gestring, Lisa Sumi

SUMMARY: How mining companies are polluting our nation’s waters in perpetuity

Acid Mine Drainage

PUBLICATION DATE: December 16, 2005

AUTHOR: Alan Septoff

Dirty Metals

PUBLICATION DATE: June 16, 2004

AUTHOR: Earthworks, Oxfam America

SUMMARY: Dirty Metals: Mining Communities and the Environment details the massive pollution, huge open pits, devastating community health effects, worker dangers and, in many cases, human rights abuses that have become hallmarks of gold and metals mining in countries such as Peru, Indonesia, Ghana and in parts of the United States.

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