Finalized USGS Critical Minerals List Another Corporate Giveaway
Earthjustice Action slams flawed addition of new minerals that will open more projects to expedited permitting and new taxpayer funds. WASHINGTON, DC—Today, the U.S. Geologic Survey published an updated List of Critical Minerals set to be finalized tomorrow. The finalized list includes the additions of metallurgical coal, uranium, copper, silver, lead, and potash. Projects for USGS-designated critical minerals get access to the expedited FAST-41 permitting process and…
Read MoreEarthjustice Action Blasts Continuation of Industry Favors During Government Shutdown, Praises Congressional Action Denouncing It
WASHINGTON, DC—Today, House Natural Resources Chair Rep. Jared Huffman (D-Calif.) and Energy and Mineral Resources Subcommittee Ranking Member Yassamin Ansari (D-Ariz.) sent a letter to Interior Secretary Doug Burgum and Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins demanding answers on why the federal agencies they head have continued non-essential services that benefit oil, gas, mining, coal, and logging industries while furloughing other essential employees and services.  “We write to express serious…
Read MoreDon’t Let Congress Provide Another Handout to the Mining Industry
By Blaine Miller-McFeeley, Senior Legislative Representative Fresh off the passage of Trump’s big, ugly budget bill in July, Congress is once again trying to pass a damaging bill that would put large amounts of our cherished public lands in the hands of the mining industry. Both the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives…
Read MoreTrump’s Big Ugly Bill is On Its Way to Having Big Ugly Impacts on the Environment
By Raúl GarcÃa, Vice President of Policy and Legislation, Earthjustice Action Last month, President Trump signed H.R. 1, a sweeping bill filled with massive tax cuts for billionaires and handouts to polluting industries. To pay for it, Republicans made deep cuts to our social safety nets and are making up the difference by selling out…
Read MorePresident Trump’s Plan to Put a Coal Executive in Charge of Coal Regulations
Earlier this month, congressional Republicans passed, and the president signed into law, the biggest federal giveaway to the coal industry in history. The big, bad budget bill slashed the royalty rate coal companies pay for the value of coal extracted from public lands nearly in half, directed the Department of the Interior to offer up…
Read MoreStop Congress from allowing dirty mining on public lands!
Congress is debating a series of proposals that would open up more of our public lands to dirty mining operations and threaten precious water resources, sacred sites, and our climate.
Read MoreMining Reform is Essential to Holding Mining Companies Accountable and Protecting Public Lands and Communities
Earthjustice Action Applauds Reintroduction of the Mining Waste Fraud, and Abuse Prevention Act WASHINGTON, DC—Today, Senator Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.), Representative Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.), and House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Jared Huffman (D-Calif.) introduced the Mining Waste, Fraud, and Abuse Prevention Act. The bill would update the General Mining Act of 1872 to…
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