The Senate in Arkansas rejects the draft law restricting mining facility – TradingView News

The Arkansas City Committee, provinces and local affairs rejected a draft law prohibiting encryption mining facilities in a radius of 30 miles from any military facility within the state in a vote from 5 to 1.

“The risks posed by mining digital assets, without restrictions, include threats to national security and the security of Arkansas,” has read the original draft law.

According to the draft law, the risks of national security are amplified of coding mining when mining operations are close to American military facilities, which include hospitals and clinics.

The pollution of noise, sustainability and national security are some of the main objections mentioned in the similar legal efforts to restrict mining operations or impose regions division requirements for encryption mining facilities throughout the United States.

Mining facilities face the division of regions, decree and political challenges

In April 2022, 23 legislators in the United States sent a letter to the Environmental Protection Agency, which raises concerns about the environmental effect of cryptocurrency.

The letter claimed that mining operations may not be compatible with the clean air law or clean water law, and to ask questions about the use of sustainable energy and environmental pollution.

“Societies about New York Currency Mining Facilities, Tennessee, to Georgia, reported a significant pollution of noise.”

Former US President Joe Biden ordered the removal of a mining facility near the Francis E base. Warren Air Air in Shayan, Wyoming in May 2024.

The facility, owned by Mineone Cloud Company Investment, located near the install of an American nuclear missile, was accused of possessing Chinese citizens.

At that time, the Biden administration argued that Minone can perform monitoring operations for the sensitive American military installation through the mining facility.

Recently, in October 2024, a group of residents in Granbury, Texas, filed a lawsuit against Marathon Digital, claiming that the mining facility had generated a lot of noise.

The lawsuit claimed that the population was suffering from physical symptoms of noise, including fatigue, headache, nausea, hearing loss, memory issues and even psychological problems.