The designation would protect the area from potential uranium mining . It also protects existing grazing permits and leases existing mining claims and will support area hunting and fishing officials said . The land includes some of the most biodiverse habitats in the region providing refuge for wildlife like bighorn sheep bison bald eagles and songbirds . The designation makes good on longtime calls from tribal leaders and environmental activists as well as Arizona lawmakers including Democratic Rep. Ral Grijalva and independent Sen. Kyrsten Sinema who have advocated for the lands surrounding the Grand Canyon to be protected . Biden will announce a million investment to strengthen climate resilience across our national park system which will be paid for with Inflation Reduction Act funding . The presidents trip to battleground Arizona is part of a threestop Western swing to highlight his economic agenda and legislative accomplishments this week . He is expected to highlight the bills climate provisions more broadly in a state deeply impacted by extreme heat in the state . He will also unveil new climate resilience funding for national parks . He said he hopes to ‘unprecedentedly important’ and ‘initiative’ to strengthen national park systems around the nation’s national parks’. He is also expected to announce a ‘significant’ new climate policy change initiative. He will be back in the U.S. to highlight a “significant” increase in support of the ‘inninninnovation’ in the United States’tability and “a significant increase in funding for the region” in the middle of the country’eastern states” for the state” to the region. Back to Back to Mail Online Live Back Back to the Mail Online Back to
Biden to designate a new national monument surrounding the Grand Canyon, blocking mining . Biden to
