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May 10, 2008 is the 136th anniversary of the 1872 Mining Law, passed before Colorado was even a state, well before uranium mining, open pit and cyanide leach mining, and when our population was under 100,000 people. Yet in spite of the many changes the American West has undergone in the last century, this law still governs how this industrial activity—the leading cause of toxic pollution in the United States—occurs today. 

Last year, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a genuine reform bill that would update this archaic law and bring hard rock mining law into the 21st-century.  Now the U.S. Senate must act, and soon.  

Colorado's two senators will play key roles in passing meaningful reform legislation in the Senate, but they need to hear from you NOW!