Biden Protects Land by Grand Canyon but Will Still Allow Mining

President Joe Biden on Tuesday plans to block expanded uranium mining around the Grand Canyon by declaring the area a new national monument.

The Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni—Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon National Monument will be a preserve about three times the size of Los Angeles in northern Arizona that will protect sites sacred to area tribes.

The more than 900,000-acre monument, created using the Antiquities Act, surrounds Grand Canyon National Park and is the fifth national monument Biden has created since he took office. It will also make permanent a 20-year ban on uranium mining in the area ...