BLM Fails to Respond to Groundwater Contamination at Pinenut Mine
GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK, Arizona–(ENEWSPF)–August 4, 2014. Conservation groups have sent a letterurging federal regulators to suspend operations at a uranium mine near the Grand Canyon, where millions of gallons of uranium-laced groundwater threaten people and wildlife. Records from the U.S. Geological Survey show that the contaminated groundwater — 80 times the limit set to protect public health and the environment — have inundated…
