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A bill signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom last week creates a new “idle reserve” mining category, allowing aggregate mines to remain idle for up to 25 years instead of 15, changes the test for determining “idle”, along with additional changes. This article explains what the bill, which takes effect Jan. 1, 2027, means to mine operators.
Assembly Bill 982 amends the Surface ...
On December 18, 2025, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 1366, the Mining Regulatory Clarity Act of 2025, legislation that seeks to overturn a 2022 Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals decision that upended more than four decades of regulatory practice governing hardrock mining on federal lands. The bipartisan bill, introduced by Representative Mark Amodei (R-NV) and co-led b...
On December 18, 2025, the House of Representatives passed the Standardizing Permitting and Expediting Environmental Decisions (SPEED) Act by a vote of 221-196. The legislation represents the most comprehensive proposed reform of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) in decades and marks a significant milestone in efforts to streamline federal environmental permitting f...
What Happened: What The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has released the final 2025 List of Critical Minerals, expanding it to 60 commodities by adding 10 new minerals. Published in the Federal Register on November 7, 2025, this update retains all 50 from the 2022 list while incorporating additions. View the full list and methodology
On October 11, 2025, Governor Gavin Newsom signed Assembly Bill 1319 into law, establishing a new California Endangered Species Act (CESA) mechanism for California to extend state-level endangered species protections to species that may lose federal safeguards under the federal Endangered Species Act (ESA). The statute empowers the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (...