SUMMIT COUNTY — Republican lawmakers this week continued their frontal assault on the Obama administration’s public land policies by proposing legislation to open 1 million acres of public lands aournd the Grand Canyon National Park to new uranium mining. The bill would overturn an existing moratorium on new mining and mining claims and block Interior Secretary Ken Salazar’s proposal to extend those protections for the next 20 years.
GOP pushes for uranium mining around Grand Canyon
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