An Open Letter to the Arizona Game and Fish Commission – Uranium Mines Do Threaten Wildlife
August 4, 2016
The Arizona Game and Fish Commission seems more interested in playing politics than in considering legitimate concerns facing wildlife and habitat. Its statement about uranium mining being a “non-existent threat” to condors is just wrong.
Arizona Urged to Deny Pollution Permits for Toxic Uranium Mines Next to Grand Canyon
December 16, 2015
PHOENIX— Conservation groups today called on the state of Arizona to deny air-pollution permits for three uranium mines on the doorstep of Grand Canyon National Park.
Court Challenge Filed to Stop Uranium Mining Next to Grand Canyon National Park
April 30, 2015
PHOENIX, Ariz.— Today, a coalition of conservation groups announced they are appealing a lower court decision that opens the door to new uranium mining at the Canyon uranium mine, located only six miles from Grand Canyon National Park’s South Rim.
Federal Judge OKs Uranium Mining Next to Grand Canyon National Park
April 8, 2015
PHOENIX, Ariz.— U.S. District Court Judge David Campbell denied a request to halt new uranium mining at the Canyon uranium mine, located only six miles from Grand Canyon National Park’s South Rim. The Havasupai Tribe and a coalition of conservation...
Havasupai Tribe and conservation groups will fight appeals
November 26, 2014
November 26, 2014, GRAND CANYON, Arizona – The Havasupai Tribe and conservation groups will fight appeals filed yesterday by two mining lobbying groups challenging a ruling by Arizona U.S. District Court Judge David G. Campbell that upheld a ban on...
Arizona’s Havasupai Tribe and a coalition of conservation groups
September 30, 2014
Arizona’s Havasupai Tribe and a coalition of conservation groups are praising Judge David Campbell’s decision today to uphold the U.S. Department of the Interior’s 20-year ban on new uranium mining claims across one million acres of public lands...
Conservation groups sent a letter
July 31, 2014
Conservation groups sent a letter this week urging federal regulators to suspend operations at a uranium mine near the Grand Canyon, where millions of gallons of uranium-laced groundwater threaten people and wildlife. Records from the U.S....
Operations to open the Canyon uranium mine have been suspended
November 6, 2013
For the second time in as many decades, operations to open the Canyon uranium mine six miles south of Grand Canyon National Park have been suspended. The Havasupai Tribe, which had previously challenged the mine, and conservation groups have been...
VANE Minerals sued the United States
June 24, 2013
June 24, 2013, WASHINGTON D.C.- On June 21st, British uranium firm VANE Minerals sued the United States in Washington's U.S. Court of Claims over the Department of the Interior's January 2012 decision to protect 1 million acres of public lands...
Judge Upholds Uranium Mining Ban
April 21, 2013
U.S. District Judge David Campbell today denied a uranium industry motion to overturn the Obama administration's ban on new uranium mining on 1 million acres near the Grand Canyon. The ban was adopted January 2012 to protect the Grand Canyon's...