Raúl Grijalva: “Thank you, Mr. Chairman. A couple of quick questions.”

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

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.

Wildlife trafficking and illegal logging facilitate instability in a country.

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.