We are writing on behalf of Silent Spring Institute to provide comments on the Environmental Justice for All Act (H.R. 2021) and detail the need for action on issues of environmental racism and disparate exposure burdens to toxic chemicals across axes of race, class, and geographic location.
Grijalva addresses the need for environmental justice legislation.
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You are hearing that correctly. Any American, or notably, any American subsidiary of a foreign company could have the exclusive rights to our public lands for about $10 per acre per year.
I am always pleased that this Committee is as bipartisan as it is in terms of finding solutions and working together for the issues that are presented here.
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.
The 1872 Mining Law is an outdated law that has failed to protect communities like mine.
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