Arizona Politicians and Organizations Fighting Popular Grand Canyon Monument
Billionaire Koch brothers, Arizona politicians, and other organizations want to destroy the Grand Canyon National Heritage Monument proposal, according to recent reports.
The proposed monument would grant federal protection to 1.7 million acres of Grand Canyon land and permanently ban uranium mining in the area. The Grand Canyon is 277 miles long and has an average depth of one mile; its land has been protected from mining since President Teddy Roosevelt's Antiquities Act in 1908.
According to the Phoenix New Times, the proposal has tremendous support from environmental organizations, native tribes, and more than 80% of the public. But all those groups together don't even come close to the amount of money being used to fight the monument.
Dark-money organizations, which are organi...