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News Release White Mesa Concerned Community October 9: Protest and Spiritual Walk What: Annual rally, protest, and spiritual walk to protect the White Mesa

The ghosts of the uranium boom continue to haunt the land, water and people. Image credit: U.S. Department of Energy July 30, 2021 In late August 2018, in the heat of one of the warmest and driest years on record in the Four Corners country, under a blanket of smoke emanating from wildfires burning all over the place, I piloted the Silver Bullet — my trusty 1989 Nissan Sentra — to the quiet burg of Monticello, Utah. I was on my way from one camping site on the Great Sage ...

Congress has opportunity to protect Grand Canyon region An overlook of the Grand Canyon. (Photo by Tim Brown/Courtesy Bureau of Reclamation) The Grand Canyon Protection Act was recently introduced by U.S. Rep. Raύl Grijalva and passed in the House and has been introduced in the Senate by Sen. Kyrsten Sinema. The bills will permanently protect about 1 million acres of public lands surrounding Grand Canyon from the harmful and lasting damage of new uranium mining. Sandy Bahr Arizona Faith Netwo...