Raúl Grijalva: “The extraction appropriately belongs 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 bill gives anyone the ability to stake a mining claim, whether there are valuable minerals on the land or not.

One thing came out of this was good. I quit smoking.

We write to express serious concerns about the Mining Clarity Regulatory Act, which represents an unprecedented, de facto giveaway of America's cherished public lands to mining corporations.