Development is eating away at Grand Canyon's edges, with Arizona issuing pollution permits for uranium mines on public lands that drain directly into the canyon.
Ask the BLM to consider the real impacts of expanding the Daneros uranium mine before making a decision that could harm the future of the Bears Ears region and the Colorado Plateau.
The Koch brothers’ involvement in the politics of western lands is not news. But how their money is undermining efforts to protect the canyon was hidden until recently.
A spike in radiation levels in soil around an active uranium mine just north of Grand Canyon National Park has led Arizona to suspend air pollution permit renewal applications.