BY BRIAN MAFFLY
The Obama administration pointedly excluded the White Canyon uranium district from the Bears Ears National Monument, disappointing the tribes that proposed the monument and... Read Original Story
BY EMMA PENROD
After running for more than a decade on an expired state permit, the controversial White Mesa Uranium Mill in southeastern Utah is on the cusp getting a new operating license — and... Read Original Story
BY RON DUNGAN
The Mojave County Board of Supervisors is asking Secretary of Interior Ryan Zinke to lift a 20-year uranium mining ban on public lands in northern Arizona.
The supervisors said in... Read Original Story
The Mohave County Board of Supervisors is calling for the repeal of a ban on new uranium mining near the Grand Canyon. Arizona Public Radio’s Ryan Heinsius reports, the Havasupai Tribe has condemned... Read Original Story
BY JOANNA WALTERS
A coalition of influential officials in Arizona and Utah is urging the Trump administration to consider rolling back Obama-era environmental protections that ban new uranium mining... Read Original Story
BY ERIN FORD
According to the American Association for the Advancement of Science, around 40 percent of all coal mined in the U.S. is extracted from federal lands through lease agreements with the... Read Original Story
BY ANTONIA NOORI FARZAN
The news that President Donald Trump is planning to review and possibly scrap some of the national monuments put in place by his predecessor makes it clear — if it wasn't... Read Original Story
BY ROBERT GEHRKE
Utah's senators are not seeing eye to eye on what steps President Donald Trump should take when it comes to Bears Ears National Monument.
While Sen. Mike Lee is pushing hard for... Read Original Story