Raúl Grijalva: “Many of us supported the Chairman's legislation and his efforts to move this legislation last Congress.”

We urge Congress to reject legislative proposals that make this colonial-era law worse.

The 1872 Mining Law is an outdated law that has failed to protect communities like mine.

We stand at the edge of a whole new mining rush.

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.