A group representing Navajo communities is presenting its case to an international human rights body, saying U.S. regulators violated the rights of tribal members when they cleared the way for uranium mining in western New Mexico years ago.
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights based in Washington, D.C., decided earlier this year that the petition filed by Eastern Navajo Diné Against Uranium Mining was admissible. The group is filing additional testimony and exhibits Thursday. The commission is expected to hold a hearing in the spring. On the Navajo Nation, uranium mining has left a legacy of death, disease and environmental contamination.
Officials with the Navajo Nation and federal government finalized an agreement last week in the ongoing effort to clean up hundreds of abandoned uranium…
Officials from the Navajo Nation and the federal government are taking a closer look at more than a dozen former uranium mines on the reservation. The…
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has awarded three major contracts for the cleanup of abandoned uranium mines on the Navajo Nation. The projects…
Navajo Nation leaders and federal officials recently toured an abandoned uranium mine on the reservation. The trip highlighted the continued threats posed…