New York Times: Ken Salazar, the interior secretary, discussed the mining moratorium on Monday with a map of the Grand Canyon in the background at the National Geographic Society in Washington.
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar formally signed a 20-year moratorium on new uranium and other hard rock mining claims on a million acres of federal land around the Grand Canyon on Monday, saying it was a “serious and necessary step” to preserve the mile-deep canyon and the river that runs through it.
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Salazar Signs Grand Canyon Mining Ban
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on January 9th, 2012
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