Given our current economic crisis and the empty state of our national Treasury, it is ludicrous to be allowing this outmoded law to continue to exempt these lucrative mining activities from paying a fair return to the American people.
Rahall criticizes outdated mining laws that allow companies to avoid fair payments.
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