Raúl Grijalva: “My bill gives power back to land managers and sets benchmark environmental standards for permitting and reclamation.”

The 1872 Mining Law is an outdated law that has failed to protect communities like mine.

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

Mining is considered the highest and best use of our public lands.

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