Raúl Grijalva: “This imbalance of power has resulted in over a century of ongoing toxic mines, scarring our landscape and poisoning our…”

This bill is not just a give-away to the mining industry. It is a wholesale giveaway of our public lands.

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

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 amendment says that this act cannot take effect until the Secretary certifies that the Bureau of Land Management and other Federal permitting agencies have sufficient staff and funding to actually comply with the deadlines established…