Pinyon Plain Mine

Navajo Nation officials this week addressed ongoing concerns about the recent restart of uranium ore hauling through the reservation.

A Lukachukai man suspected of flying a drone over the Pinyon Plain uranium mine near the South Rim of the Grand Canyon Wednesday has been arrested.

The company that owns a uranium mine near the South Rim of the Grand Canyon has resumed trucking ore from the site. It follows an agreement with Navajo Nation officials last month to allow the shipments to cross the reservation.

The U.S. Forest Service says it is reviewing a 1986 environmental assessment of a uranium mine near the South Rim of the Grand Canyon.

The emergency legislation amends and strengthens the Radioactive Materials Transportation Act of 2012. It was passed in response to the unannounced trucking of uranium ore from the Pinyon Plain Mine south of the Grand Canyon.

More than a hundred people gathered Saturday at Red Butte south of the Grand Canyon to protest the mining and hauling of uranium ore. It’s the latest in a string of Indigenous-led protests calling for the closure of the Pinyon Plain mine.

In late July, the first truckloads of uranium ore were shipped from the Pinyon Plain Mine near the Grand Canyon. The mine’s owner says it's crucial as the world moves away from fossil fuels, but conservationists and Indigenous communities are pushing back.

Attorney General Kris Mayes is calling on the U.S. Forest Service to conduct a new environmental assessment for the Pinyon Plain Mine near the Grand Canyon. The last such study was done in 1986 and she’s concerned the uranium mine's permits are based on outdated science.

Thursday marks the first anniversary of President Joe Biden’s designation of a nearly million-acre national monument near Grand Canyon National Park. The area is culturally significant to 13 tribes in the region.

Indigenous leaders and activists protested over the weekend opposing the start of uranium ore transport from the state’s only active uranium mine. They say it is a violation of tribal sovereignty and threatens public health and the environment on the Navajo Nation.