Raúl Grijalva: “We must make a just transition off of fossil fuels to a 100 percent clean, renewable energy economy that works for all.”

I look forward to working with you, Madam Chair, and the other members of the Subcommittee to move this bipartisan bill in a similar bipartisan manner.

My bill, the Clean Energy Mineral Reform Act, would do just that.

We cannot have meaningful tribal consultations as long as the mining industry has the automatic right to mine wherever they stake a claim.

This amendment says that this act cannot take effect until the Secretary certifies that the Bureau of Land Management and other Federal permitting agencies have sufficient staff and funding to actually comply with the deadlines established…