A report details significant 2018 greenhouse gas emission sources across the Colorado Plateau and forecasts our future emissions if business continues as usual.
Resource Issue: Air quality
In December 2021, the EPA halted shipments of Superfund site waste to a uranium mill in White Mesa, Utah. Read the letter.
Flagstaff, AZ — On November 2, 2021, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed new safeguards to reduce methane pollution. The Grand Canyon Trust welcomes the EPA’s proposed safeguards as an important and timely step in the right direction to slow climate change. These safeguards will create efficiency, ensure fair returns on natural resources the […]
Navajo Generating Station has been burning 2 million pounds of coal per hour to power three 750 megawatt generators for decades.
Read the court’s decision on the Grand Canyon Trust’s claims of White Mesa Mill’s alleged violations of radion emission regulations.
Read the joint letter opposing the cuts to the EPA’s budget.
Grand Canyon Trust, Sierra Club, and Center for Biological Diversity comments on the proposal to extend permits and leases for Navajo Generating Station until 2044.
Read the comments submitted by the National Parks Conservation Association and the Grand Canyon Trust regarding the Draft Environmental Impact Statement for the Navajo Generating Station-Kayenta Mine Complex.
This map shows closed and operating coal-fired power plants in Utah, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, and Colorado.
This map shows the carbon equivalent intensity for power plants in Utah, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, and Colorado.
This map shows the greenhouse gas emissions from coal, natural gas, and oil fired powerplants in Utah, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, and Colorado.
This map shows the megawatt capacity of powerplants in Utah, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, and Colorado.
Briefs filed by Energy Fuels as part of the Clean Air Act citizen lawsuit over environmental issues at the White Mesa uranium mill in 2016.
Read the arguments submitted by the Grand Canyon Trust in the White Mesa Mill Clean Air Act lawsuit.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE SALT LAKE CITY— The Bureau of Land Management announced this week that it is moving toward allowing dirty oil shale development that could be a double whammy for the environment, unleashing nearly a half a billion tons of greenhouse gases and consuming vast amounts Colorado River basin water. It would be the […]
These comments were submitted by environmental stakeholders to the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality regarding the Federal Clean Power Plan.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE EPA stalls despite reports of alarmingly high radon emission levels near Southeastern Utah Communities White Mesa, Utah — New data reveals that emissions of radon – a radioactive, invisible, odorless, cancer-causing gas – from the White Mesa Uranium Mill exceed Clean Air Act (CAA) standards by over 50 times the legal limit. Using an Environmental […]
Proposal to relax radon emission standards at the White Mesa Mill threatens public health White Mesa, Utah—A lax new regulation proposed by EPA for the White Mesa Uranium Mill, the nation’s only operating conventional uranium mill, will threaten public health by eliminating enforceable emission standards for radon, reducing the amount of required reporting and monitoring, […]
