Mark Udall: “I am here on the Senate floor to highlight our country's clean energy future.”

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

EPA has accepted responsibility here also.

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.