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Five weeks before President Joe Biden announced a historic new ban on new uranium mining around the Grand Canyon, Sarana Riggs approached the barbed-wire fence surrounding an inactive mine in an Arizona national forest, a Geiger counter in her hand. The Geiger counter didn’t detect any dangerous radiation that day…
The Grand Canyon and the plateaus above it have given life to Native peoples since time immemorial.
Over 200 packed the meeting in Flagstaff Tuesday to voice support or opposition to the tribal-led effort which would designate 1.1 million acres around Grand Canyon in new monument.
Leaders came from as far as Yuma and southern Utah to make their voices heard.
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.The Havasupai live in the western Grand Canyon and have opposed the Pinyon Plain uranium mine on the South Rim for years, without much success.The Grand Canyon Protection Act won’t stop existing