The public lands surrounding Grand Canyon National Park contain high concentrations of uranium ore. Mining bores deep into vertical rock formations called “breccia pipes,” making uranium soluble to ...

A few miles south of the Grand Canyon, thousands of tons of uranium ore, reddish-gray, blue and radioactive, are piled up ...

Katie Hobbs to close the Pinyon Plain uranium mine, which is located in the country’s newest national monument near the Grand Canyon. Closing the mine will safeguard Tribal cultural heritage and ...

A new poll shows nearly 80% of registered Arizona voters support the Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni -- Ancestral Footprints of ...

A group of Havasupai, whose reservation lies within the Grand Canyon area, protest at Canyon Mine, expected to start producing uranium in 2017. “We are on the front lines of a contamination ...

Just as vulnerable as the Grand Canyon’s air is its water. Like much of the Colorado Plateau, the canyon is rich in uranium, first discovered by prospectors in the 1890s and later the object of a Cold ...

Arizonans want national monuments in the state to remain protected. That is the result of a survey commissioned by the ...

The Environmental Protection Agency has finalized a plan to clean up a million cubic yards of radioactive waste at abandoned ...

A recent survey commissioned by an environmental nonprofit found that 71% of Utah voters support Bears Ears National Monument ...

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Uranium mine waste northeast of Gallup is a step closer to being safely stored after the Environmental Protection Agency and Navajo Nation finalized a plan Monday to transport 1 million cubic yards of ...