Raúl Grijalva: “Ms. Pinto has brought us textbook environmental injustice. She and her community deserve better.”

The 1872 Mining Law is an outdated law that has failed to protect communities like mine.

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.

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

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…