Legislation
Our lawyers, including two who have served as counsel to the relevant U.S. Senate committees, have extensive experience working with Congress on environmental and natural resources legislation on behalf of our clients. Our projects have included:
- Representing an industry coalition supporting responsible reform of the ESA on the bill which passed the U.S. House of Representatives in the 109th Congress.
- Preparing and presenting testimony to the U.S. House Resources Committee opposing the adoption of vague and overly broad legislation to protect Native American sacred sites.
- Working with Congress to protect valuable gold mining claims threatened by federal wilderness legislation and later successfully defending a company’s mine approval against appeals by tribal and environmental interests.
- Representing mining companies in the congressional debate over reform of the General Mining Law.
- Drafting and securing enactment of legislation raising statutory limits on acreages of federal mineral leases that companies may hold nationally and in each state.