Legislation & Regulation

March 2023

March 2023

Stocks have been on a run. The S&P 500 is up 14% from its June low; the NASDAQ 100 is up about 20%. Yet sentiment is dismal. 

• Extremist groups are at it again
• Trump-era actions on endangered species being reviewed again.
 

• Extremist groups are at it again
• No more sales tax on precious metals in Tennessee

The New Mexico settlement marks just the latest reached over the past year. Colorado and the Navajo Nation also have inked multimillion-dollar agreements…

• All bark but no bite
• Company looks to restart mining in Wisconsin

• Environmental groups push for more ESA listings
• Proposed grant program to recruit mining engineering students

I’m combining these columns this month because there is an overlapping issue I wanted to address -- the new Interior Department “working group” on mining reform

• Another setback for Twin Metals
• US Supreme Court to review case that challenges WOTUS

• WOTUS definition is changing again
• BLM HQ on the move again

• Big banks penalized for rigging gold price
• Mining royalties excluded from reconciliation bill

• Senators object to “Build Back Better” royalty provision
• Biden reverses Utah monument reductions
• Eco-terrorist confirmed

• BLM is moving back to DC?
• Gray wolf re-listed?
• EPA to redefine WOTUS again

Hennis claims that months later and without his permission, the EPA built a $2.3 million water treatment facility on the property and the agency continues treating water and storing waste there.

• New, damning revelations about Biden nominee to head BLM

Mining claimants who wish to retain their mining claims on Bureau of Land Management and Forest Service lands through the 2022 assessment year must pay a maintenance fee or file a maintenance fee waiver certificate on or before September 1, 2021, to prevent forfeiture.

• Actions speak louder than words
• Biden nominee for BLM director has ties to eco-terrorist groups

• Biden administration considers ban on new mining
• 30 x 30 Termination Act