Critics Lob Early Challenge At First EPA Permit For In-Situ Uranium Mine

Activists have asked EPA's environmental appeals board to review a Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) permit the agency issued for a test well at a planned uranium mine in Colorado, the first battle in what is likely to be a long fight over a mine that could be the first in-situ uranium mine directly overseen by EPA. The environmental group Coloradoans Against Resource Destruction (CARD) filed a Jan. 3 petition asking the board to review a Dec. 3 permit EPA...