Raúl Grijalva: “Any bill that ducks the issue of drawing down fossil fuel production on public lands is not enough.”

I will state that nobody should ever be denied basic healthcare, period. No one is better off when people are forced to receive healthcare in emergency rooms or receive a later stage diagnosis because of lack of preventive care and seeing…

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

Effective democratic governance depends upon informed public participation, and several international conventions and policy guidelines call for enhanced public participation in environmental management.

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