Raúl Grijalva: “There appears to be an upswing in the number of proposed mining projects on public lands in southern Arizona.”

The undersigned organizations are writing on behalf of our millions of members across the country to express our support for reforming hardrock mineral extraction standards in the United States to better protect communities and the…

We stand at the edge of a whole new mining rush.

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…

To merely open the floodgates to the use of our public lands without any protections, due process, community involvement... is going back to a time that got us into this situation.