Mark Udall: “I think the STEM program is something as a country we have to be focused on.”

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.

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

EPA has accepted responsibility here also.

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