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It is estimated that the Amrabad Tiger Reserve has about 20 tigers. | Davidraju / Wikimedia Commons Between protecting the interests of the tigers and Chenchu Adivasis and pursuing uranium mining in Telangana state, the former has won for now. The Atomic Minerals Directorate for Exploration and Research, Hyderabad under the Department of Atomic Energy has decided to “shelve” the project to drill boreholes in the Amrabad Tiger Reserve to prospect for the yellowcake, a form of uranium ore. Uranium is used as the basic fuel to generate nuclear power. In 2019, an expert pan...

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 Network; Arizona Trail Association; Arizona Wildlife Federation; Center for Biological Diversity; Chispa ...

The U.S. House of Representatives recently passed a conservation package that includes a bill to ban new uranium mining claims on more than a million acres

/ The Mexican Hat Disposal Cell holds radioactive material from a uranium mill located nearby which operated from 1957 to 1965, and from another uranium mill site 15 miles southwest, near Monument Valley. Utah lawmakers want Congress to extend the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act, or RECA. It’s a federal program meant to help those suffering the effects of nuclear testing or uranium mining. RECA is set to expire in 2022, despite ongoing radiation exposure and hundreds of pending claims. “It’s not an old, dead issue now,” Owens said. “There are still ongoing claims. There’s prob...

Arizona’s U.S. Senators have introduced a bill that would ban all new uranium mining near Grand Canyon National Park. KNAU’s Ryan Heinsius reports, it’s