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Industry Tries to Overturn Ban on Grand Canyon Uranium Mining

Conservation groups to defend international icon in court

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Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–February 27, 2012.  In an attempt to open public lands around Grand Canyon National Park to dangerous new uranium mining, the National Mining Association today filed a lawsuit in federal court challenging the Interior Department’s recent enactment of a 20-year ban on new uranium mining development across one million acres. In response, the Center for Biological Diversity, Grand Canyon Trust and Sierra Club, represented by Earthjustice…

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