Raúl Grijalva: “The Grand Canyon, to me, and not just from Arizona, is one of the shared treasures of this 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.

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

The number of CBP agents under investigation for a large variety of transgressions is extremely concerning.

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