Two LA-based dealers have been charged with swindling senior citizens on precious-metals purchases in the run-up to this year’s record high in gold prices.

The bill, to be voted in Congress, could hinder construction of large mining projects or imply higher costs to meet regulations.

“We sorta take a chunk of dirt out of the ground, remove the lithium, and put the chunk of dirt back where it was. It will not look, like, terrible. It will be nice.”

Comments made about elected and regulatory officials in Alaska in private conversations videotaped by an environmental activist group.