The rise of the Land-healing Industry

Biden's American Jobs Plan could sow the seeds of a restoration economy

Kirstin Brown, of the Colorado Division of Reclamation, Mining and Safety, talks about the Koehler Mine in 2016. The Sunnyside Gold Corp. paid for the mine to be bulkheaded as part of its consent decree with the State of Colorado. The fix appears to have worked. Jonathan P. Thompson photo.

In 1991, Echo Bay, a global mining conglomerate, announced that …