Abandoned Uranium Mines

The Environmental Protection Agency has finalized a plan to clean up a million cubic yards of radioactive waste at abandoned uranium mines on the Navajo Nation near Gallup, New Mexico.

The Environmental Protection Agency had added a remote area on the Navajo Nation in northwestern Arizona to its Superfund National Priorities List.

The Environmental Protection Agency next week will open a field office in Flagstaff to focus on the ongoing cleanup of the more than 500 abandoned uranium mines on and near the Navajo Nation.

A bill in the U.S. Senate that would dedicate a hundred million dollars to the cleanup of abandoned uranium mines on tribal lands has passed a key hurdle.

The Environmental Protection Agency has awarded a major contract in the long-term cleanup of abandoned uranium mines on the Navajo Nation. The decades-long process aims to address public health risks and environmental threats.

The Environmental Protection Agency has proposed adding an area of the Navajo Nation to the Superfund National Priorities List. It would be the first-ever such designation there despite a decades-long legacy of uranium mining contamination.

A bipartisan bill introduced in the U.S. Senate aims to hold the federal government accountable for the cleanup of abandoned mines on tribal lands and throughout the country. An estimated 140,000 such sites nationally threaten public health and the environment.

The U.S. Senate has approved a bipartisan bill designed to shore up drought mitigation and flood control in Arizona including long-delayed projects in Flagstaff and Winslow.

Navajo Nation leaders and local community members are opposing a plan by the federal government to transport nuclear waste near homes.