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Bruce Gordon, EcoFlight

EPA faults uranium processor for not keeping Superfund waste covered

Source: Salt Lake Tribune

News|December 10, 2021

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) last week ordered a halt to deliveries of waste from Superfund sites to a Utah uranium mill in San Juan County after determining its impoundment had not been... Read Original Story

Maree Mahkewa

Northern Arizona University fall graduate spotlight: Maree Mahkewa

Source: Arizona Daily Sun

News|December 9, 2021

Environmental and sustainability studies major Maree Mahkewa says she's excited and nervous and “really ready to graduate” Friday after a long four years at Northern Arizona University. She’s been... Read Original Story

Yo-Yo Ma visits the Grand Canyon to play and listen to Indigenous perspectives

Source: Navajo-Hopi Observer

News|December 7, 2021

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — The world’s most famous cellist, Yo-Yo Ma, visited the Grand Canyon in November not to play, but to listen. He listened to the Canyon itself and the perspectives of the Indigenous... Read Original Story

Ed Moss

Congress Must Act to Save the Havasupai Tribe from Extinction | Opinion

Source: Newsweek

News|December 3, 2021

We are the Havsuw' Baaja, the People of the Blue-Green Water; we live in the Grand Canyon. Since time immemorial, the Havasupai Tribe's home has been in and around the Grand Canyon, along the blue-... Read Original Story

Amanda Podmore, EcoFlight

A flight above the Grand Canyon and Little Colorado River

Source: Arizona Daily Sun

News|December 1, 2021

The Grand Canyon Trust organized a flight over the Grand Canyon through non-profit EcoFlight. The flight took several members of the media, an author and a local film-maker near the Grand Canyon and... Read Original Story

Michael Quinn, NPS

Grand Canyon’s South Rim transitions to winter operations Dec. 1

Source: Grand Canyon News

News|November 30, 2021

GRAND CANYON, Ariz. — Starting Dec. 1, visitors to Grand Canyon National Park should prepare for modified changes in operations. Visitors should also plan ahead and anticipate temporary road closures... Read Original Story

Ed Moss

Uranium levels deemed safe in water samples around Grand Canyon, study finds

Source: Associated Press

News|November 26, 2021

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — Most springs and wells in a vast region of northern Arizona known for its high-grade uranium ore meet federal drinking water standards despite decades of uranium mining, U.S.... Read Original Story

Community members reflect on legacy and impact of Jim Babbitt in Flagstaff

Source: Arizona Daily Sun

News|November 24, 2021

Good-natured, humble and passionate were the descriptors that came up over and over again as local community members and friends reflected on last week’s loss of author and historian Jim Babbitt. In... Read Original Story

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