Raúl Grijalva: “It is our responsibility to give the agency the tools it needs for hazardous fuels reduction, watershed protection, and…”

We write to express serious concerns about the Mining Clarity Regulatory Act, which represents an unprecedented, de facto giveaway of America's cherished public lands to mining corporations.

This bill would address the long-standing inequities caused by the U.S. Supreme Court's 2009 decision in Carcieri v. Salazar.

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.

The bill gives anyone the ability to stake a mining claim, whether there are valuable minerals on the land or not.