Raúl Grijalva: “Holistic land management is the only practical solution to climate change, and we have the capability to sequester all…”

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…

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

My bill, the Clean Energy Mineral Reform Act, would do just that.

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.