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For Immediate Release -- June 7, 2022 [click for full News Release PDF (3-pg) ]
Contact:
- Sandy Bahr, Sierra Club - Grand Canyon Chapter, (602) 999-5790, Sandy.Bahr@sierraclub.org
- Amber Reimondo, Grand Canyon Trust, (928) 286-3361, areimondo@grandcanyontrust.org
- Taylor McKinnon, Center for Biological Diversity, (801) 300-2414, tmckinnon@biologicaldiversity.org
- Kelly Burke, Wild Arizona, (928) 606-7870, kelly@wildarizona.org
- Geoff Nolan, Earthjustice, (202) 740-7030, gnolan@earthjustice.org
- Liam Kelly, National Parks Conservation Association, (213) 814-8666, LKelly@npca.org
Senate Committee Considers Grand Canyon Protection Act
Arizonans Urge Senate to Protect 1 Million Acres Near Canyon from Mining
PHOENIX -- A Senate subcommittee held a hearing today on the Grand Canyon Protection Act, an important step toward passage of legislation that will protect about 1 million acres of public lands near Grand Canyon National Park from toxic uranium mining. The Act would make permanent a ban on mining that was enacted administratively in 2012.
A broad coalition of conservation organizations, business owners, faith groups, local government leaders, military veterans, hunting and fishing groups, river runners and others joined Indigenous Tribes and Nations to urge the U.S. Senate to expeditiously pass the bill, which has already passed the U.S. House of Representatives. The bill was heard in the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee’s Public Lands, Forests and Mining Subcommittee...