Raúl Grijalva: “Congress has no business listing or delisting species.”

The 1872 Mining Law is an outdated law that has failed to protect communities like mine.

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.

I look forward to working with you, Madam Chair, and the other members of the Subcommittee to move this bipartisan bill in a similar bipartisan manner.

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