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News & Opinion about the Report on Threats to Special Places in the West
Below is reaction from news outlets to the recent Environmental Working Group report showing that many of the West's special places, including Yosemite, the Grand Canyon, and Death Valley, are at new and growing risk as mining claims cluster around their boundaries.
News
- This land is ore land
Marketplace, (CA)
Aug 20, 2007
- Old law used to file new claims: Miners target public land around Yosemite, other national parks.
Fresno Bee,
August 18, 2007
- Modern-day gold rush threatens Grand Canyon
New Scientist, (subscription required)
August 17, 2007
- Rush for state mining rights: Demand for uranium fuels jump in claims, group says
Colorado Springs Gazette,
August 17, 2007
- Uranium mining fuels 80 percent jump in claims on federal lands in the West
San Diego Union,
August 16, 2007
- Changes to mine law may shake state: History, politics, economics and the environment are all tangled up in an 1872 law
Colorado Springs Gazette,
August 12, 2007
- Sportsmen want mining law revised
Denver Post,
July 26, 2007
- Nevadan Joins Push for Mining Changes
Forbes,
July 26, 2007
- Mining the West: Lawmakers to discuss 1872 law reform
Salt Lake Tribune,
July 23, 2007
- Critics Dig in for Hard-Rock Mining Reform
U.S. News & World Report,
June 24, 2007
- Can Congress drag the 1872 Mining Law into the 21st century?
High Country News,
May 17, 2007
- 1872 Mining Law: time for an update?
Christian Science Monitor,
May 16, 2007
Opinion
- Unchanged (for the Worse) Since 1872: Ax federal mining law
(Editorial)
New York Times (registration required)
August 20, 2007
- Ax federal mining law
(Editorial)
Register-Guard, Eugene, OR
July 25, 2007
- Hard rock mining reform long overdue
(Opinion by Peter Metcalf and Mike Van Abel)
The Missoulian
July 19, 2007
- Mining companies digging our pockets
(Opinion by Ryan Alexander)
The Mountain Mail, CO
June 21, 2007
- Closing in on mining-law fix
(Editorial)
The Denver Post
May 28, 2007
- Regulating hard-rock mining
(Opinion by Jane Danowitz)
Sacramento Bee
May 16, 2007
- Mining Law of 1872 no longer applies to today's world
(Opinion by Mike Kowalski)
Las Vegas Sun
May 7, 2007
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