NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – A federal agency said seven more abandoned uranium mines will be cleaned up on Navajo land in New Mexico.The EPA said it will target the sites near Smith Lake and Mariano ...

NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – New Mexico lawmakers and the New Mexico Environment Department are pushing to clean up New Mexico’s abandoned uranium mines this legislative session.For decades, officials ...

Uranium mining between the 1940s and the 1970s in and around the Navajo Nation left cancer and pollution in its wake.

said to the New Mexican. Even if mining companies "would like to clean up abandoned sites in an area, the liability hurdles make it challenging." Justin Klawans has worked as a staff writer at The ...

The Trump administration has walked back a proposed withdrawal of the Upper Pecos watershed from mining development. An April 4 news release published by the U.S. Department of Agriculture said the ...