The spectacular views and lands of the Grand Canyon were preserved for future generations to appreciate and enjoy.
The Dirty Energy Koch Brothers would seek to destroy it and they have a history of leaving in their wake environmental destruction. Unfortunately, we have a Republican Congress too willing to give away public lands -YOUR LANDS.
Please consider joining Environment Massachusetts to remain informed and speak out.
Right now, we're working with our allies across the country to protect the Grand Canyon from destructive toxic uranium mining forever.
But mining interests are threatening to blow up the plan -- and we've just learned that money from the Koch brothers' massive political operation is fueling their effort. [1]
I need your help to counter the Koch money and the political power it buys and do what it takes to protect the Grand Canyon forever.
Will you donate right now?
Uranium mining near the Grand Canyon -- one of the world's most amazing places -- is a terrible idea.
The canyon already bears the scars of past mining activity. In fact, hikers in Grand Canyon National Park can't drink the water from four different radioactively contaminated streams. [2] Then there are the health risks: One study found that Navajo uranium miners in Arizona had a lung-cancer rate that was nearly 29 times that of their neighbors. [3]
In 2012, facts like these, combined with our trademark grassroots action, helped convince the Obama administration to suspend new mining near the Canyon.
Now we have a chance to make that protection permanent.
President Obama has the authority to declare 1.7 million acres surrounding the canyon a new national monument.Mining would be banned in the canyon's watershed forever.
Yet mining and other interests are furiously resisting the idea. And now it turns out the main group opposing the monument is getting 83 percent of its budget from a dark-money outfit described by The New York Times as a "conduit for tens of millions of dollars in political spending, much of it raised by the Kochs and their political operation." [4]
To stop them, we need to strengthen our national network's research, advocacy and especially double down on grassroots action -- now.
We can't let pro-mining forces and their Koch money threaten the natural beauty and ecological health of the Grand Canyon, or the health of the people who rely on the drinking water that passes through it.
Will you support our fight to protect the canyon by donating right now?
We're still working to reduce global warming pollution from coal-fired power plants, bring more solar power to our communities, and more. But right now, we need to make sure we stand up for the Grand Canyon and other special places that need our protection.
Please contribute today -- for the Grand Canyon, for all the places we love, for our future.
Yours,
Ben Hellerstein
Environment Massachusetts Director
[1] Uranium Mining Is Coming To The Grand Canyon, If Koch-Backed Group Gets Its Way, Mar 2, 2016, ThinkProgress
[2] Grand Canyon at Risk: Uranium Mining Doesn't Belong Near Our National Treasures, July 26, 2011, Environment America Research & Policy Center
[3] Abandoned uranium mines continue to haunt Navajos on reservation, Aug 4, 2014, The Arizona Republic
[4] Group Linked to Kochs Admits to Campaign Finance Violations, Oct 24, 2013, The New York Times
Will you donate right now?
Uranium mining near the Grand Canyon -- one of the world's most amazing places -- is a terrible idea.
The canyon already bears the scars of past mining activity. In fact, hikers in Grand Canyon National Park can't drink the water from four different radioactively contaminated streams. [2] Then there are the health risks: One study found that Navajo uranium miners in Arizona had a lung-cancer rate that was nearly 29 times that of their neighbors. [3]
In 2012, facts like these, combined with our trademark grassroots action, helped convince the Obama administration to suspend new mining near the Canyon.
Now we have a chance to make that protection permanent.
President Obama has the authority to declare 1.7 million acres surrounding the canyon a new national monument.Mining would be banned in the canyon's watershed forever.
Yet mining and other interests are furiously resisting the idea. And now it turns out the main group opposing the monument is getting 83 percent of its budget from a dark-money outfit described by The New York Times as a "conduit for tens of millions of dollars in political spending, much of it raised by the Kochs and their political operation." [4]
To stop them, we need to strengthen our national network's research, advocacy and especially double down on grassroots action -- now.
We can't let pro-mining forces and their Koch money threaten the natural beauty and ecological health of the Grand Canyon, or the health of the people who rely on the drinking water that passes through it.
Will you support our fight to protect the canyon by donating right now?
We're still working to reduce global warming pollution from coal-fired power plants, bring more solar power to our communities, and more. But right now, we need to make sure we stand up for the Grand Canyon and other special places that need our protection.
Please contribute today -- for the Grand Canyon, for all the places we love, for our future.
Yours,
Ben Hellerstein
Environment Massachusetts Director
[1] Uranium Mining Is Coming To The Grand Canyon, If Koch-Backed Group Gets Its Way, Mar 2, 2016, ThinkProgress
[2] Grand Canyon at Risk: Uranium Mining Doesn't Belong Near Our National Treasures, July 26, 2011, Environment America Research & Policy Center
[3] Abandoned uranium mines continue to haunt Navajos on reservation, Aug 4, 2014, The Arizona Republic
[4] Group Linked to Kochs Admits to Campaign Finance Violations, Oct 24, 2013, The New York Times
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