Groups Deliver more than 17,000 Petition Signatures to Governor Hobbs Urging Her to Shut Down Pinyon Plain Uranium Mine
June 27, 2024
... to use her authority to close the Pinyon Plain uranium mine that threatens the waters of Grand Canyon and the Havasupai Tribe -- This comes after the groups, scientists, and many others sent a letter to the governor in January, outlining the...
Mining Arizona
June 1, 2024
Plate tectonics has blessed (or cursed?) Arizona with minerals -- copper, gold, lithium, uranium, zinc, lead, coal, and more -- extracted from the earth at the expense of the environment and indigenous people -- permitted by obsolete federal mining...
Havasupai are Leading Protection of Lands
June 1, 2024
Statement from Stuart Chavez of the Havasupai Tribe = “The work that the Havasupai Tribe has done to stop uranium mining is important because of the sacredness of Havasupai ancestral lands and the natural resources that surround the current mining...
Groups, Scientists Urge Governor to Close Uranium Mine In Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni (Ancestral Footprints)
April 3, 2024
...[calls for] AZ Gov. Katie Hobbs to close the Pinyon Plain uranium mine -- located in the country’s newest national monument, near Grand Canyon -- Closing the mine safeguards Tribal cultural heritage and prevents permanent damage to Grand Canyon’s...
News Release from Grijalva: Save Oak Flat From Foreign Mining Act
March 6, 2023
Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) announced...the "Save Oak Flat From Foreign Mining Act" to permanently protect...from foreign mining operations...destroy tribal cultural and religious heritage sites...sacred to...tribal nations in Arizona...for millennia...
Uranium Mine Gears Up Near Grand Canyon National Park
December 7, 2022
Senate must pass Grand Canyon mining ban before 117th Congress ends
New Lawsuit for EPA to Protect Queen Creek from Mining
August 9, 2022
SUPERIOR, Ariz.— Lawsuit...Seeking EPA Pollution Limits for Arizona Creek Threatened by Copper Mine -- Conservation groups filed NOI to sue the EPA today in response to the ADEQ’s decades-long failure to limit pollution in Queen Creek -- Resolution...
Grand Canyon Protection Act Considered in Senate
July 21, 2022
Senate Committee Marks Up Grand Canyon Protection Act -- Arizonans Support Protecting 1 Million Acres Near Canyon from Mining -- Today, the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee considered and offered amendments on the Grand Canyon...
Senate Committee Considers Grand Canyon Protection Act
June 7, 2022
Arizonans Urge Senate to Protect 1 Million Acres Near Canyon from Mining -- 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...