How to go about expanding the nation’s mining sector has set off a debate within Congress, as Republicans push to reduce U.S. environmental regulations they say are stifling mining.
, the sprawling clean energy bill President Joe Biden signed into law last year.
They want to replace the existing claim system, under which companies are legally entitled to develop any minerals they discover -- presuming they can get the necessary permits from state and federal agencies -- with a leasing system where the government auctions off the right to mine a specific piece of land, as it does with oil and natural gas deposits, and requires mining companies to pay a royalty.
“Our plants, our mines have declined, and the companies are trying,” he said. “The problem is are just not economic because countries aren’t playing on the same playing field we are.”
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