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Cerissa Hoglander

New EPA head has long history of ties to mining interests

Source: High Country News

News|July 10, 2018

Andrew Wheeler, a former coal and uranium mining lobbyist, has been named the acting administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, after the abrupt resignation of Scott Pruitt. Pruitt... Read Original Story

How Andrew Wheeler, the New Acting E.P.A. Chief, Differs From Scott Pruitt

Source: New York Times

News|July 5, 2018

The departure of Scott Pruitt, the scandal-plagued former head of the Environmental Protection Agency, means that the agency will be led in the coming months by Mr. Pruitt’s deputy, Andrew Wheeler, a... Read Original Story

Amy S. Martin

Sacred Native American Sites Are Not Your Playgrounds

Source: Outside Magazine

News|July 5, 2018

Deep in the Grand Canyon, on land that Havasupai Native Americans have called home for generations, is a place known as Beaver Falls. It’s an unimaginative name for an otherworldly landscape, where... Read Original Story

Cerissa Hoglander

This trick could allow dangerous uranium mining at the Grand Canyon

Source: Arizona Republic

News|July 3, 2018

On May 18, the Department of the Interior released a list of 35 minerals set to enjoy looser environmental and permitting standards because of their importance to “national security and economic... Read Original Story

Jerilyn Tutt

Sushi on the Rez?

Source: Navajo-Hopi Observer

News|July 3, 2018

Carlos Deal, a Native entrepreneur, says yes. Deal now offers veggie sushi out of a food truck located by Chevron on Highway 64 in Tuba City. He calls his company AlterNativEats and its healthy, feel... Read Original Story

Shane McDermott

Arizona Reboots Drought Talks While Rest Of Colorado River Basin Watches

Source: KNPR

News|June 21, 2018

BY BRET JASPERS Water leaders in Arizona are again trying to get to “yes” on a deal that deals with drought. This would help prepare the state for future cuts to its water supply if -- and likely,... Read Original Story

Ellen Heyn

A Canadian Firm Prepares To Mine Land Trump Cut From Monument Protection

Source: Huffington Post

News|June 19, 2018

BY CHRIS D'ANGELO A Canadian company is looking to extract copper and other minerals from the site of a former mine that was, until recently, within the boundary of Grand Staircase-Escalante National... Read More

NPS

Zinke has ‘no intention’ of revisiting Grand Canyon uranium mining ban

Source: Cronkite News

News|June 19, 2018

BY SARABETH HENNE WASHINGTON – Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke has “no intention to revisit uranium mining” in and around the Grand Canyon, his spokeswoman said, after outdoorsmen’s groups launched a... Read Original Story

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