A coalition of influential officials in Arizona and Utah is urging the Trump administration to consider rolling back Obama-era environmental protections that ban new uranium mining near the Grand Canyon. The battle to restore mining activity near the Grand Canyon is part of broader push by conservatives to roll back protections on America’s 640m acres of public land. “That’s ridiculous,” said Roger Clark, program director of the Grand Canyon Trust, an environmental campaign group. “I don’t think we have certainty on the safety of uranium mining. “Arizona is called the Grand Canyon state.

Source: The Guardian June 05, 2017 10:01 UTC