TAKE ACTION: tell Congress mining reform creates jobs‏

Real mining reform is needed more than ever

Urge your Representative to cosponsor HR 699

Take Action! Tell your Representative to cosponsor HR 699

Mining reform creates jobs.
Nowadays, jobs are as precious as gold. Fortunately, mining reform doesn't force a choice between the two.

House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Nick Rahall has re-introduced mining reform this year. It would require, for the first time in 135 years, that mining companies pay a royalty on hardrock minerals (like gold and copper) they extract from federal lands owned by American taxpayers.

The money from that royalty would pay for abandoned hardrock mine cleanup. And based upon government estimates, abandoned mine cleanup creates thousands of new jobs.

Mining reform has a better chance at passage this year...
HR699, the Hardrock Mining and Reclamation Act of 2009 is unchanged from last year's bill. But the new presidential administration is much more favorable to environmental reforms. If Congress passes mining reform, it's likely to become law.

...with your help. TAKE ACTION!
Urge your Representative to support mining reform today -- ask him to cosponsor HR699, the Hardrock Mining and Reclamation Act of 2009.

In tight economic times, some Representatives think we can't afford mining reform... despite record high gold prices. Your member of Congress needs to hear from you that HR699 will help create jobs -- as well as protect clean water, fish & wildlife habitat, and other special places.

Thank you,
Alan Septoff and Lauren Pagel, EARTHWORKS

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