Save Yosemite from toxic mining

Mining companies have staked 185 claims within 10 miles of Yosemite National Park—close enough that cyanide and other toxic chemicals they use to separate gold from rock could run off into the trails and wild lands that surround it—historically, mining wastes often escape into local waterways.

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