Nevada Environmental Commission Chairman Jim Gans listens to some of the eight hours of testimony at an appeal hearing Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2019, in Carson City, Nev., before his 3-member panel voted to uphold a water control pollution permit for a huge open pit molybdenum mine about 250 miles east of Reno. The Great Basin Mine Watch wanted the panel to rescind the permit for the mine it says could pollute Nevada's ground water for centuries. (AP Photo/Scott Sonner)
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