As Nevada pursues more mining in the state, Nevadans will be directly contributing to increased greenhouse gas emissions and environmental destruction.
In 2015, former President Barack Obama said "If we're going to prevent large parts of this Earth from becoming not only inhospitable but uninhabitable in our lifetimes, we're going to have to keep some fossil fuels in the ground rather than burn them." Despite this, Obama's energy policy was called "All of the Above," and