Diana DeGette actually said...

Under the existing 150-year-old mining law, mining companies...don't have to ask permission to mine public lands.

Is it true that the mining industry is also able to pollute our water resources due to loopholes in the Clean Water Act, the Resource Conser...

Am I correct that BLM has few options under current law to deny a proposed mine, even if that mine was on, say, lands sacred to Native Ameri...

If there was a company that wanted to mine, the local citizens might not have any idea about it until it is far along into the process.