Raúl Grijalva actually said...

the mining industry uses up our public lands, ignores tribes' concerns, spills their toxic waste into our communities and waterways, and lea...

As long as the present mining law exists, the legislation we are talking about today, it only makes matters worse.

We believe that tribes deserve to be meaningfully consulted before development happens on their ancestral lands.

To start with, the Chair's bill explicitly says, and I quote, 'Environmental reviews shall not require consideration of downstream indirect ...