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 uranium mine has dumped nine million gallons of toxic water out of the shaft near Arizona's Grand Canyon since opening last year, a new study has revealed. Pinyon Plain Mine, located 10 miles ...

If you haven’t heard much about the push to open a uranium mine in one of America’s national parks, you’re not alone. There has been a big push in opposition, but regardless, the mine in the ...

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

GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK, Ariz.— The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality proposed an aquifer-protection permit Wednesday for a uranium mine near Grand Canyon National Park, with a history of ...

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

The Moab to Mojave Conservation Corridor stretches 600 miles from California to Utah, making it the largest connected and ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...