There are a few questions you will need to ask yourself before you apply for a suction dredge permit from the State Water Resources Control Board.

• DOI to address threatened species
• 141 Confirmations still pending
• California withdrawals canceled

The current administration is receptive; we believe the time is ripe to push for a return to reasonable regulations and to restore mining to a priority for public lands as long as some new crisis doesn’t take precedent.

• Administration issues proposals to fix mining access and permitting
• Online “webinar” and request for comments for proposed Forest Service NEPA revisions

Like all federal judges, he swore an oath to perform his duties “impartially… under the Constitution and laws of the U.S.” Nothing in those documents gives Judge Morris authority to order the BLM to work with non-government organizations (the same ones that filed the lawsuit in question) to alter America’s use of energy.