Industrial Minerals


Republicans release job plan, say will keep soda ash fee flat

09 September 2011

by Siobhan Lismore

Contra bill comes in wake of Obama act, will look at rare earths, mining

Keywords: Western Caucus, Jobs Frontier, American Jobs Act, Barack Obama, John Barrasso, soda ash, rare earths, Cynthia Lummis,

A group of Republican congressmen today released an opposing document to President Barack Obama’s American Jobs Act which pledges to keep US soda ash producer costs down and looks to protecting US minerals.

The Congressional Western Caucus slammed Obama’s American Jobs Act, which was presented to Congress on Thursday night. Obama claimed that the act would create more jobs and “provide a jolt to the economy.”...