Flake rider would prevent canyon uranium ban

07/07/11 Rep. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., attached language to an Interior Department appropriations bill this week that would prevent the Obama administration from adopting a proposal to ban new uranium mining on public lands near the Grand Canyon. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar last month extended a temporary moratorium on new mining across 1 million acres north and south of Grand Canyon National Park. He ...

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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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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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