The Havasupai Tribe and conservation groups including the Grand Canyon Trust won a major victory in the legal battle to protect the Grand Canyon watershed last week.
Most of the electricity generated on the Colorado Plateau comes from burning fossil fuels. Find out about the EPA's proposal to cut carbon dioxide emissions from the nation’s power plants.
Conservation groups sent a letter last week urging federal regulators to suspend operations at a uranium mine near the Grand Canyon, where millions of gallons of uranium-laced groundwater threaten people and wildlife.
In an important victory for public lands and Grand Canyon National Park, a U.S. Court of Federal Claims judge last week dismissed a lawsuit by VANE Minerals LLC challenging the Department of the Interior’s 2012 decision to ban new uranium mining across a million acres of public land in Arizona for 20 years.
Facing a lagging uranium market, Grand Canyon’s zombie mines may be falling back into their graves. But their pollution problems remain alive and well—along with agencies’ refusal to require updated reviews or reclamation.
They are undead. They've been put to rest for years -- perhaps decades. Buried and forgotten. But our complacency can be shattered in an instant when, with no warning, they are up and running again, leaving trails of contamination, threatening everything they encounter.
One year after the Obama administration enacted new protections limiting uranium mine development on 1 million acres around Grand Canyon National Park, pollution and legal threats from the uranium industry remain.