Westerman Responds to Problematic DOI Mining Report

Statement

"The findings published in this report demonstrate yet another example of the Biden administration's attempt to have their cake and eat it too. We must explore and develop minerals domestically if we ever hope to see America find true independence from foreign suppliers and secure our mineral supply chains. We can't allow overreaching permitting regulations to hold back domestic production and we certainly can't allow detrimental regulation intended to upend our domestic mining industry to come into effect. It's time for this administration to turn to science and realize that without domestic mineral production, America is simply handing our adversaries the keys to the global market and our mineral security."

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