Boy, is that dumb.
We require that the U.S. Forest Service and BLM pay for their own firefighting.
My home State had 664,000 acres burned last year.
We have got to start making a little more sense around here.
We save $6 post-disaster for every $1 of predisaster funds that FEMA invests.
The roughly half-million abandoned hardrock mines that litter this country are a huge public safety and environmental pr...
The hardrock mining industry has no less of a responsibility than the coal industry.
Not only could we create a permitting system designed specifically for hardrock mining and establish a reclamation progr...
The fact of the matter is the money is not there.
the President is only proposing to spend $900 million of that. We have tremendous needs.
We do need mines. I am not saying we don't. We do need mines, there is no question about it. But we don't need to contin...