Raúl Grijalva: “The Freely Associated States are among the low-lying island and atoll countries in the region, and they are directly…”

The mining industry, however, sits above all of that.

Wildlife trafficking and illegal logging facilitate instability in a country.

This imbalance of power has resulted in over a century of ongoing toxic mines, scarring our landscape and poisoning our communities.

We cannot have meaningful tribal consultations as long as the mining industry has the automatic right to mine wherever they stake a claim.