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What Lifting a Uranium Mining Ban Could Mean for Northern Arizona

Trump considering lifting Obama-era restrictions.

President Trump dismantled a number of Obama-era initiatives during his first year in office. Vanessa Barchfield reports that could eventually include a 20-year ban on uranium mining near the Grand Canyon.

Featured in this story: Mark Chalmers, President and CEO, Energy Fuels Resources Tom Zoellner, Author, Uranium: War, Energy and the Rock that Shaped the World Frank Bain, Geologist and Mining Consultant Roger Clark, Grand Canyon Program Director, Grand Canyon Trust Carletta Tilousi, Member, Havasupai Tribal Council Art Babbott, District 1 Supervisor, Coconino County Board of Supervisors

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