"In my view, after decades of taxpayer ripoffs and environmental destruction, it is long past time to reform the 1872 Mining Law." - Oregon Senator Ron Wyden to the Senate Energy Committee last Tuesday.Mining reform is back in the news following a hearing before the…
On the same day the Obama administration withdrew a Bush hail mary designed to increase logging in Northwest forests home to northern spotted owls and salmon, we watched a destructive contradiction pass: They approved the sale of timber in a roadless national forest in Alaska,…
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