Raúl Grijalva: “Rio Tinto has a long-established partnership to supply copper to China--they repeatedly stated--and at a hearing refused…”

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

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.

We urge Congress to reject legislative proposals that make this colonial-era law worse.