Radiation Exposure Compensation Act

The U.S. House of Representatives has passed a short-term extension of a federal law that provides compensation to residents and workers in the West who were exposed to radiation during the Cold War.

The U.S. Senate has approved a two-year extension of a federal law that compensates residents in the West who were exposed to radiation during the Cold War. It’s designed to give lawmakers more time to craft a larger expansion of the program.

Navajo Nation President Jonathan Nez is pressing members of Congress to reauthorize and expand federal benefits for people known as downwinders who were exposed to radiation in the western U.S. during the Cold War.

A bipartisan group of lawmakers is renewing a push to expand a U.S. compensation program for people who were exposed to radiation following uranium mining…

The Navajo Nation Council is pushing for the renewal of the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act, slated to expire next year. The program currently…

The president of the Navajo Nation and New Mexico residents who live downwind from the site of the world’s first atomic blast are among those seeking…

Arizona Congressman Greg Stanton is urging House leadership to expand compensation for victims of radiation exposure in the Southwest in a future COVID-19…

About a quarter of Navajo women and some infants who were part of a federally funded study on uranium exposure had high levels of the radioactive metal in…