...have to comply with at least 13 or 14 federal laws, to say nothing of the laws the states themselves impose," said Luke Popovich, vice president of the National Mining Association. The Environmental Protection Agency says metal mining accounts...

...its timing. "Sudan will host the Winter Olympics before these guys get a trillion dollars out of the ground," Luke Popovich of the National Mining Association told the Los Angeles Times. Afghanistan's mineral potential long has been known...

...administration. But National Mining Association spokesman Luke Popovich said his lobbying group hasn't specifically brought...time wasted in permit review and approval," spokesman Luke Popovich said, referring to what he called "review constipation...