Raúl Grijalva: “I will not ask you which party was in Majority from 1995 to 2006. I will leave that for people to figure it out.”

The 1872 Mining Law is an outdated law that has failed to protect communities like mine.

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.

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

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