"My bill, the Clean Energy Mineral Reform Act, would do just that."
"The 1872 Mining Law is an outdated law that has failed to protect communities like mine."
"Future exploration or mining activities at the site not only threatens the health and welfare of tribal members."
"We urge Congress to reject legislative proposals that make this colonial-era law worse."
"To me, the people, the first people of this country, the Native Americans, we are second-class citizens still."
"The bill gives anyone the ability to stake a mining claim, whether there are valuable minerals on the land or not."
"Mining is considered the highest and best use of our public lands."
"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 manageme..."
"The undersigned organizations are writing on behalf of our millions of members across the country to express our support for reforming hardrock mineral extraction standards in the United States to bet..."
"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."
"Fractionated land makes land use planning extremely difficult, cumbersome, and often impractical."