Mark Udall: “However, I firmly believe we cannot allow the litigation process to hold back much-needed progress.”

The 1872 mining law continues to allow mining corporations to take hard rock minerals from public lands without paying any royalties.

I think Federal lands, which control so much of your State, are really critical, because those are vast rural areas that have virtually no coverage.

We are grateful to Senators Udall and Barrasso as well as the bipartisan co-sponsors of S. 2440.

What happened at the Gold King Mine is part of a much, much bigger problem.