Dear John,
For decades, the Grand Canyon has been an iconic natural landscape for generations young and old to enjoy. But Trump wants to expose this historic site to a massive increase in uranium mining.
Opening the Grand Canyon to mining would lead to its destruction. It would cause devastating water pollution. And it would increase the risk of cancer and other public health issues for local Indigenous communities.
With your help, we pressured the House of Representatives to pass a bill that protects the Grand Canyon from uranium mining forever. Now we need your help again to ensure this landmark bill passes in the Senate!
Take action now: Tell your Senators to permanently ban uranium mining near the Grand Canyon!
Since 2012, mining in the area near the Grand Canyon has been prohibited under a twenty-year ban. However, the Trump Administration included uranium on a list of 35 minerals it considered ‘critical’ for national security, which could overrule the ban.
Contaminated water from an abandoned uranium mine on the South Rim is already poisoning a creek deep within the Canyon, and another mine on the North Rim, reopened in 2009, is housing more than two million gallons of contaminated groundwater.
What’s more, recent water tests show that 15 springs and 5 wells within the Grand Canyon’s watershed contain dissolved uranium concentrations which exceed the standards for safe drinking water. But now, the Trump Administration could reverse the temporary 2012 uranium prohibitions.
It is time for Congress to step in and stop any giveaway to the mining industry for the purpose of building more nuclear warheads and propping up the nuclear energy industry at the expense of public health and the environment. We need your help to make the ban on uranium mining near the Grand Canyon permanent. Can we count on your support?
Send your message: Tell the Senate to protect the Grand Canyon from the mining industry!
Trump’s vision for our environment is clear. He thinks our public lands are first and foremost meant to be exploited for the benefit of his coal, oil, and uranium industry friends.
With the help of Friends of the Earth members like you, we’ve been leading the fight to keep fossil fuels in the ground on our public lands for years. With your support, we helped build a nationwide movement to preserve these places for future generations.
We can’t let Trump hand over these places to extractive industries. We need your help to fight back!
Help send 40,000 messages: Tell your Senators to defend the Grand Canyon from uranium mines!
Standing with you,
Nicole Ghio,
Senior fossil fuels program manager,
Friends of the Earth
