Federal judge rules to allow uranium mine 6 miles from Grand Canyon's south rim to resume operations without updating an obsolete federal environmental review nearly 30 years old.
Tongue-tied? Our lawyers aren't. They're working to protect two imperiled wildflowers – the White River beardtongue and Graham's beardtongue – from proposed fossil fuel development in Utah and Colorado.
“Does this or does this not cause cancer? If we hunt and fish in the nearby area and our game is drinking the water that is contaminated, will this affect our health?”
Just outside Canyonlands National Park’s Island in the Sky district, oil has been a booming business since 2012 when Fidelity Exploration and Production brought in a gusher of an oil well.