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Blake McCord

ADEQ Releases Draft Air Pollution Permits for Three Uranium Mines Near Grand Canyon

Source: KNAU

News|August 11, 2016

BY RYAN HEINSIUS The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality has released draft air-pollution-permit renewals for three uranium mines near the Grand Canyon. The agency halted the renewals last... Read Original Story

Tim Peterson

Poll: Most Utahns favor a Bears Ears National Monument

Source: Salt Lake Tribune

News|August 11, 2016

BY THOMAS BURR A new poll shows a majority of Utahns support President Barack Obama naming the Bears Ears region as a new national monument and that most residents also now back the once... Read Original Story

Michael Collier

In the Utah desert, a test of the President’s climate commitment

Source: The Hill

News|August 9, 2016

BY TED ZUKOSKI The remote high desert south of Bonanza, Utah (population: 1) is a long way from Paris, France in more than distance. But the two places are linked. How the Obama administration... Read Original Story

Michael Collier

Key firm ceases oil shale project

Source: Grand Junction Sentinel

News|August 9, 2016

BY DENNIS WEBB The company most active in pursuing an oil shale project in northwest Colorado is shutting down after running out of funding, following in the footsteps of three other companies that... Read Original Story

Michael Collier

Protect the West From a Black-Gold Rush

Source: New York Times

News|August 5, 2016

BY MARK UDALL In northeastern Utah, just across the border from my home state, Colorado, the Estonian-owned company Enefit American Oil is trying to make good on a promise that the federal government... Read Original Story

Shane McDermott

Secretary of the Interior Jewell visits Grand Canyon

Source: Grand Canyon News

News|August 3, 2016

BY LORETTA YERIAN Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell visited the park July 26 and addressed sexual harrassment on the river and possible designation of a Grand Canyon Watershed National Monument... Read Original Story

Tim Peterson, flown by LightHawk

Last Day to Comment on Uranium Mine Expansion in Proposed Bears Ears Monument

Source: Phoenix New Times

News|August 1, 2016

BY MIRIAM WASSER Today is the last day the U.S. Bureau of Land Management will accept public comment about a proposal to expand the Daneros uranium mine in southern Utah. The mine, which began... Read Original Story

Tim Peterson, flown by LightHawk

BLM set to approve expansion of inactive uranium mine in Utah

Source: Salt Lake Tribune

News|July 29, 2016

BY BRIAN MAFFLY The White Canyon mining district yielded thousands of tons of uranium ore during the Cold War, but the area west of Blanding has gone silent in recent years, thanks to collapsing... Read Original Story

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