We write to express serious concerns about the Mining Clarity Regulatory Act, which represents an unprecedented, de facto giveaway of America's cherished public lands to mining corporations.

to merely open the floodgates to the use of our public lands without any protections, due process, community involvement... is going back to a time that got us into this situation.

Effective democratic governance depends upon informed public participation, and several international conventions and policy guidelines call for enhanced public participation in environmental management.

I will continue to oppose the attacks on our mines by activist judges and the Biden administration.

Mining is considered the highest and best use of our public lands.

We cannot have meaningful tribal consultations as long as the mining industry has the automatic right to mine wherever they stake a claim.

The 1872 Mining Law is an outdated law that has failed to protect communities like mine.

This bill is not just a give-away to the mining industry. It is a wholesale giveaway of our public lands.

We urge Congress to reject legislative proposals that make this colonial-era law worse.

My bill, the Clean Energy Mineral Reform Act, would do just that.

We stand at the edge of a whole new mining rush.

The mining industry, however, sits above all of that.

You are hearing that correctly. Any American, or notably, any American subsidiary of a foreign company could have the exclusive rights to our public lands for about $10 per acre per year.

Future exploration or mining activities at the site not only threatens the health and welfare of tribal members.

To me, the people, the first people of this country, the Native Americans, we are second-class citizens still.

This imbalance of power has resulted in over a century of ongoing toxic mines, scarring our landscape and poisoning our communities.

This law would apply to all of our public lands, including national parks, wilderness areas, and BLM land.

The bill gives anyone the ability to stake a mining claim, whether there are valuable minerals on the land or not.