Pro-mining measure survives vote

07/12/11 A House committee on Tuesday refused to kill a budget amendment that would preserve uranium mining rights on about 1 million acres of public lands near the Grand Canyon. The amendment would block the Obama administration from imposing a long-term moratorium on mining in areas north and south of the canyon. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar last month endorsed a 20-year ban, a proposal currently ...

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Interior head backs B Reactor as national historical park

07/14/11 Making B Reactor part of the National Park Service received the backing of Ken Salazar, the secretar

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Hanford: A hot new national park

07/13/11 Hanford in Eastern Washington would be part of a new national historical park to commemorate the Manhattan Project, the World War II effort to build the atomic bomb, according to a proposal made Wednesday by U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar. Other major sites of bomb development, Los Alamos, New Mexico and Oak Ridge, Tennessee, would [...]

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