Obsolete and unsafe regulations allow uranium mining companies to play Russian roulette with America’s most treasured public lands, including the Grand Canyon.
Federal judge rules to allow uranium mine 6 miles from Grand Canyon's south rim to resume operations without updating an obsolete federal environmental review nearly 30 years old.
“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?”
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.
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.
Two years ago, Arizona Congressman Raúl Grijalva greeted us warmly as we stepped in from a squall of snowflakes for a special event in Washington DC. My 17-year-old daughter and I had flown out from...
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.
