Environmental Science 14th Edition by Tyler Miller ,Scott Spoolman

Exercise 4

Explain why you support or oppose each of the following proposals concerning extraction of hard rock minerals on public land in the United States (Case Study, p. 291): (a) halting the practice of granting title to public land for actual or claimed hard rock mineral deposits; (b) requiring mining companies to pay a royalty of 8-12% on the gross income they earn from hard rock minerals that they extract from public lands; and (c) making hard rock mining companies legally responsible for restoring degraded land and cleaning up environmental damage caused by their activities.