Last week, the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee took up a bill to ban uranium mining near the Grand Canyon, which an Arizona tribe has been watching the bill closely.
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The federal government's demand that Colorado River water users rapidly scale back water use to stabilize plunging reservoir levels has touched off debate about which states should conserve the most... Read Original Story
In June, federal and tribal officials signed an intergovernmental cooperative management agreement for Bears Ears National Monument in southeastern Utah. It followed a historic congressional hearing... Read Original Story
The developers of a stalled Utah oil-shale project once owned invaluable rights to 11,000 acre-feet of Green River water. But for a mere $10, they sold those rights to the operators of Utah’s Bonanza... Read Original Story
Legislation that would ban uranium mining near the Grand Canyon will go before a Senate committee Thursday.
But the bill’s fate is still up in the air.
Polls show that a majority of Arizona residents... Read Original Story
Grand Canyon National Park and its surrounding areas encompass some of the world’s natural treasures. As one of the seven wonders of the world, the Grand Canyon National Park is more than 1,000,000... Read Original Story
Roberto Nutlouis says residents of Navajo Nation communities directly hurt by the closure of a huge coal-fired power plant near Page deserve a just and equitable transition from the coal industry,... Read Original Story
DENVER (AP) • For National Park Service fisheries biologist Jeff Arnold, it was a moment he’d been dreading. Bare-legged in sandals, he was pulling in a net in a shallow backwater of the lower... Read Original Story
