The Lisbon Valley in Utah, historically affected by extractive industries like mining and oil drilling, faces new threats as the Trump administration implements emergency permitting for projects on federal lands. This rush has drastically shortened environmental review processes, placing the region at risk again. The area bears scars from past industrial activities, such as uranium mining, which continue to contaminate the environment, including groundwater. The situation exemplifies ongoing tensions between energy development and environmental protection in the Western U.S.
"On a blustery day in mid-May, a herd of cattle grazed against the snow-dusted slopes of the La Sal Mountains... the splintered remains of all the juniper and piñon trees that had been attacked and viciously shredded by a hydromower."
"Seventy years later, abandoned mine openings still peer darkly from red-rock cliffs, silent about radioactive dangers they hold, with a reclaimed uranium mill continuing to contaminate groundwater."
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