U.S. to Ban New Uranium Mining Near Grand Canyon

Saturday, January 7, 2012 at 12:00AM
El Guapo in Conservation, Environment, News, environmental news

Score one for the good guys.

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar is expected to announce on Monday that he has approved a 20-year moratorium on new uranium mining claims in a million-acre buffer zone around the Grand Canyon.

LINK (Via: The New York Times)

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