Bruce Westerman: “The Department of the Interior has a long history of leasing federal land containing coal deposits to mining companies…”

We want to go through the process, but we want to make the process happen more quickly. And we want to take away the ability for activists to shut down projects

If you look back at 1995, we produce three times more copper than China

All these committees are working with bipartisan solutions that hopefully will get put in a good permitting bill, and hopefully it will happen sooner than later because we’re running out of time

Right now in the law, you’ve got six years where you can file a suit and a judge can issue an injunction and stop the project