We want to attract and keep the best, and these skilled and dedicated public servants are needed now more than ever.

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

What we don't need is permitting reform that guts and takes away the protections that NEPA gives to communities like mine.

the Biden administration is effectively not only standing in the way, but making it impossible for the kind of critical mineral extraction in this topic to get done.

One of the things I have been promoting, if we are serious about, is that those mining companies that have those horrendous human, environmental, and labor abuses, and are doing businesses in other parts of the world, wouldn't it be…

I don't think we can look at this regulatory side and permitting side in terms of what needs to be done there, relative to mining and critical minerals without overlapping on that 1872 mining law.

Circular economy policy for energy transition minerals has the following main components: 1) labeling 2) producer responsibility 3) battery design for recycled content with high environmental standards 4) supply chain due diligence.

We write to ask you to prioritize efforts that would balance public health, community input, and the protection of watersheds.

Does that include denying people their redress in court?

In short, tribes must be allowed to fully utilize their knowledge in developing energy within their lands.

It is time to fine-tune it, bring it up to date to these times.

But according to that 2020 study, that was 1 out of every 450 NEPA reviews are ever challenged in court.