Hi All,

Check out this new investigation from POGO on DOI's critical minerals list, Mining for Access at the Interior Department.

Suggested tweets from POGO below:

Docs obtained by @POGOBlog reveal that mining industry reps used their access w/ industry-friendly @Interior officials to influence the its "critical minerals" list & push for a rollback of rules to limit mining on public lands.

@dennettl has the story: https://www.pogo.org/investigation/2019/09/mining-for-access-at-the-interior-department/

Check out @dennettl's new investigation via @POGOBlog on how @Interior's labeling of certain minerals as “critical” while rolling back regulations on their extraction puts public lands & taxpayers at risk: https://www.pogo.org/investigation/2019/09/mining-for-access-at-the-interior-department/

In "Mining for Access at the @Interior Department", @POGOBlog's @dennettl reports that the critical mineral initiative & an accompanying regulatory rollback appear to be driven by gov't & industry's shared goal to make it easier to mine on public lands: https://www.pogo.org/investigation/2019/09/mining-for-access-at-the-interior-department/

Madeline Page

Program Manager, Federal Lands Programs

Western Conservation Foundation

520.661.5042