The American Exploration & Mining Association
(AEMA) led a coalition of 13 mining
organizations in filing an amicus brief
to the U.S. Supreme Court in a highly significant
case that will determine whether
the National Environmental Policy Act
(NEPA) requires an agency to study environmental
impacts beyond the proximate
effects of the action over which the
agency has regulatory authority. The brief
focused on how NEPA has morphed into
a tool of obstruction, with current NEPA
delays inhibiting much-needed mineral
development in the United States. The
AEMA stressed that NEPA reviews should
be limited to the actionable information
needs of agencies and the reasonably
foreseeable effects of proposed actions.
The AEMA’s partners in the brief included
the Women’s Mining Coalition
and state mining associations from Alaska,
Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Minnesota,
Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, South
Dakota, Utah, and Wyoming.
As featured in Womp 2024 Vol 11 - www.womp-int.com