Lack of Congressional action to reform this archaic law is indefensible--albeit a testament to the strength of the mining industry's influence on certain key Members who have consi...
Today, Reps. Filner, Pelosi, Gutierrez, and I am introducing legislation to require the Department of Energy to move the tailings to a safe ...
The NRC has seems determined to perpetuate rather than resolve this dangerous situation in the case of the Atlas site.
This antiquated relic allows mining operators nearly unlimited access to our Nation's hard rock minerals, no matter what other values (such ...
The majority refused to even hold hearings on these bills during the last Congress, instead focusing on crushing Clinton administration poli...
Today, I am introducing three bills, in addition to Rep. Nick Rahall's (D-WVA) comprehensive bill to reform the Mining Law of 1872.
Moving the tailings will remove the source of the contamination.
Public opinion--even in Western states with large mining activities--is strongly in favor of mining reform that includes a royalty that rais...
This is corporate welfare that subsidizes both foreign and domestic mining companies and should be stopped.
The only mining law reform bill Congress has sent to the President in recent years was part of the fiscal year 1995 budget reconciliation bi...
Mining reform is long overdue.