“With this bill signed into law, Utahns can bypass bureaucratic hurdles and senseless lawsuits to clean up abandoned mines ...

The hunters hadn’t noticed it ... State officials with expertise in abandoned mines were consulted. The team began to pump oxygen into the hole in hopes that she was alive.

There are about 500,000 abandoned mines in the United States, according to the Mine Safety and Health Administration, and these long-forgotten facilities can pose a variety of risks to people ...