Rep. Grijalva Issues Statement on DOI Stopping Mining Health Impact Study
August 21, 2017
August 21, 2017
WASHINGTON, Aug. 21 -- Rep. Raul M. Grijalva, D-Ariz., ranking Democratic member of the House Natural Resources Committee, issued the following statement on the news that the Department of the Interior, under Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, has ordered the National Academy of Sciences to stop its study of the human health impacts of mountaintop removal mining. The study, which was already underway and had conducted multiple public listening sessions, was being conducted on a DOI contract that the . . .