Interior Department: US must update century-old mining law t

The Interior Department said Tuesday that Congress and the executive branch must modernize a 150-year-old hard rock mining law to speed domestic development of renewable energy. A federal interagency working group is making more than 60 recommendations to modernize the permitting and development process, part of a Biden administration push to improve supply chains. “To…

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