Shannon Kelleher

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Peehee Muhuh/Thacker Pass. Credit: Ian Bigley (CC BY-NC 2.0)
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In push to mine for minerals, clean energy advocates ask what going green really means

"We’re still living with contamination from these other abandoned mines,”

This story was originally published in The New Lede, a journalism project of the Environmental Working Group, and is republished here with permission.

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