Mark Udall: “There's a tendency for it to become isolated from society. The Reserves and the Guard provide that pipeline.”

The royalties paid by coal companies--and energy development of all kinds on federal lands--provide critical support for local schools, roads and other services that Colorado families count on.

How can we now start supplying natural gas to Europe instead of the dependence upon the Putin regime?

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.