NEWS RELEASES
Editor's Note: This news item was retrieved and first published through The Wilderness Society's website.
The Wilderness Society reports that the White House Nuclear Fuel Working Group supports the idea of boosting the domestic uranium mining industry, which can have profound effects on sensitive public lands including Bears Ears National Monument, the Grand Canyon region and many others.Wilderness Society writer Dan Hartinger relays in his article, "Subsidizing domestic uranium would use taxpayer funds to essentially pay mining companies to exploit areas like the Grand Canyon watershed, Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments." Earlier this year, two uranium mining firms petitioned the Commerce Department and the White House to institute domestic uranium quotas to artificially boost the domestic uranium mining industry – by claiming that imports of nuclear fuels constituted a national security risk. For more information on this issue, click here.