If you agree that we need to save the Grand Canyon from Uranium mining...

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 --------------------------------------------------------------- Now read the original language from the petition: Call on President Biden to Save the Grand Canyon from Uranium Mining Now! The Grand Canyon is the largest canyon in the world: more than 217 miles long, a mile deep, and almost 18 miles wide in places. It has been the home for many Native peoples since time immemorial and is at the heart of their creation stories. Many come from around the world to witness the power and beauty of the natural world. For as far as the eye can see, great pinnacles of stone and rock stand tall, carved by the Colorado River for centuries -- with colors as varied as the rainbow changing hue from top to bottom with every passing hour. At the bottom, the river is still so swift and turbulent it carries half a million tons of silt every day and provides clean water to seven states, from Wyoming to California. Many Native tribes -- including the Hopi, Hualapai, Kaibab, Las Vegas, and Moapa Band of Paiute Indians, Navajo Nation, Paiute Indian Tribe of Utah, San Juan Southern Paiute Tribe, Yavapai-Apache Nation, Pueblo of Zuni, and the Havasupai Tribe -- each have historic and sacred connections to the lands and resources in the canyon, where the Havasupai people still live to this day. Despite a 20-year uranium mining moratorium established in 2012, Donald Trump’s administration proposed spending $1.5 billion to prop up the country’s nuclear fuel industry, emboldening Canada-based Energy Fuels Inc. to take steps toward boosting operations at dormant uranium mines outside Grand Canyon National Park. Now, as MAGA Republicans are seeking to establish increased supplies of domestic stockpiles of rare earth minerals once again, a coalition of Tribal leaders is calling on President Joe Biden to extend permanent protections to over a million acres of land near the Grand Canyon, which are home to large uranium ore deposits. They’re backed by several members of Congress, including Congressman Raúl Grijalva, ranking member of the House Natural Resources Committee. The Grand Canyon Tribal Coalition is calling on President Biden to use his authority under the Antiquities Act to establish a new national monument -- totaling 1.1 million acres -- protecting the cultural, archaeological, and sacred places of ancestral importance to Indigenous peoples and Tribes. Their proposed Baaj Nwaavjo I'tah Kukveni Grand Canyon National Monument would also protect the Colorado River from toxic uranium mineral production. Such production would otherwise contaminate and destroy the drinking water used by more than 40 million people. This threat looming over the future of the Grand Canyon is not new. Multinational mining conglomerates have long sought to extract nearby stores of uranium -- regardless of harm to the canyon and the people who live in the region. Since the 1950s, the Grand Canyon area and surrounding Colorado Plateau have been home to at least 22 uranium mills and the majority of all uranium mining activities conducted in the United States. These mines have left a toxic legacy on the land and local Tribal communities. Nearly one in five uranium mines is located within six miles of a Native American reservation, and more than three quarters of them are situated within 50 miles of a reservation. In the Navajo Nation alone, estimates suggest that there have been more than 1,000 uranium mines since modern extraction methods began. More than 500 of these mines have been abandoned and remain in need of cleanup. Indigenous-led movements across the U.S. have begun to turn back the legacy of exploitation, illness, and land desecrated by fossil fuel corporations. Now we must take on the legacy of uranium mining in the Southwest, where women and newborn babies exhibit higher levels of uranium in their bodies than people in other parts of the country. More than a quarter of Navajo Nation residents participating in one study recently tested positive for high levels of uranium. Enough is enough. President Biden can protect sacred land, Indigenous communities, sovereign treaty rights, and the water that serves 40 million people and irrigates 1.8 million acres of land used to grow crops and raise livestock. [Add your name to call on President Biden to save the Grand Canyon and designate the Baaj Nwaavjo I'tah Kukveni Grand Canyon National Monument now.!]( [Add My Name »]( Paid for by Democratic Values PAC [CONTRIBUTE »]( Democratic Values PAC PO Box 15320 Washington, DC 20003 United States If you wish to donate by check, please make a check payable to "Democratic Values PAC" and mail it to PO BOX 15320 WASHINGTON, DC 20003 If you would like to receive only our most important emails, [click here.]( If you no longer wish to receive emails please [unsubscribe](. This message was sent to {EMAIL}.