Tongue-tied? Our lawyers aren't. They're working to protect two imperiled wildflowers – the White River beardtongue and Graham's beardtongue – from proposed fossil fuel development in Utah and Colorado.
“Does this or does this not cause cancer? If we hunt and fish in the nearby area and our game is drinking the water that is contaminated, will this affect our health?”
Just outside Canyonlands National Park’s Island in the Sky district, oil has been a booming business since 2012 when Fidelity Exploration and Production brought in a gusher of an oil well.
The Havasupai Tribe and conservation groups including the Grand Canyon Trust won a major victory in the legal battle to protect the Grand Canyon watershed last week.
Most of the electricity generated on the Colorado Plateau comes from burning fossil fuels. Find out about the EPA's proposal to cut carbon dioxide emissions from the nation’s power plants.
Conservation groups sent a letter last week urging federal regulators to suspend operations at a uranium mine near the Grand Canyon, where millions of gallons of uranium-laced groundwater threaten people and wildlife.
In an important victory for public lands and Grand Canyon National Park, a U.S. Court of Federal Claims judge last week dismissed a lawsuit by VANE Minerals LLC challenging the Department of the Interior’s 2012 decision to ban new uranium mining across a million acres of public land in Arizona for 20 years.
Facing a lagging uranium market, Grand Canyon’s zombie mines may be falling back into their graves. But their pollution problems remain alive and well—along with agencies’ refusal to require updated reviews or reclamation.
They are undead. They've been put to rest for years -- perhaps decades. Buried and forgotten. But our complacency can be shattered in an instant when, with no warning, they are up and running again, leaving trails of contamination, threatening everything they encounter.
