Joe Biden defended Native American rights as Trump administration plans to lift uranium mining ban around 'sacred' Grand Canyon

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• Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden said he opposed uranium mining around Arizona's Grand Canyon.
• Biden also condemned President Donald Trump's nuclear energy plan, which was released in April this year and outlined plans to create a $150 million uranium reserve in the coming decade.
• Biden said that — if elected — he would create a clean energy economy that will generate "millions of well-paying union jobs...without jeopardizing the places we hold dear," according to The Arizona Republic.
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Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden condemned plans to mine uranium around Arizona's Grand Canyon and said President Trump's nuclear energy plan would "drive a drill into the heart of one of Arizona's cultural and economic cornerstones."

In a statement released on Friday afternoon, Biden said: "The Grand Canyon is first among the landmarks of our nation — holy to the Tribes who preserve it and call it home, and sacred to all Americans," according to The Arizona Republic.

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