The Biden-Harris Interagency Working Group
on Mining Laws, Regulations and Permitting published its “Recommendations to Improve Mining on Public Lands”
It positively calls out the IRMA Standard for special attention among voluntary mining standards, “This report endorses the adoption of a number of components of voluntary standards—particularly ones from the IRMA standard developed by a multi-stakeholder coalition comprised of the mining industry, end-users, environmental and human rights NGOs, labor organizations, and others.”