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Peggy Pauly is a wife, mother and home-school teacher in Yerington, Nevada who has been working with the Great Basin Resource Watch on cleaning up the abandoned Anaconda Mine near her home.

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May 2, 2016

Copping Out on Copper Mine Contamination

By Peggy Pauly  /  Northeast Office

After decades of delay, financial assurance regulations will push polluters to clean up their toxic messes in a timely manner and encourage companies to avoid making messes in the first place.