The decision to trade Federal land, forest land, particularly land that was set aside during the Eisenhower Administration, and withdraw it from mining--to a mining company, a foreign-owned mining company, is likely to impact the human environment.
Grijalva warns about the environmental impact of trading federal land to a foreign mining company.
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