Amber Reimondo, along with the Grand Canyon Trust, has been working all year to see a permanent mining ban in the Grand Canyon go through Congress.
They began to achieve that objective on Oct. 30 when the bill passed the U.S. House by a vote of 236 to 185. The House late last month approved HR 1373 (Grand Canyon Centennial Protection Act) that would protect the watershed, ecosystem, and the cultural heritage of the Grand Canyon (Bidáá’ Ha’azt’i’) region.
The bill sets a permanent moratorium on new uranium mining claims on at least 1,006,545 acres of federal land to the north and to the south of Grand Canyon National Park, said U.S. Rep. Raúl M. Grijalva, D-Ariz., co-sponsor of the bill that was introduced Feb. 26...