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A year after Congress allowed a radiation compensation program to lapse, former Navajo uranium miners and their families want the aid restored.
Provisions to revive and expand Radiation Exposure Compensation Act are in the Senate's version of Trump's “big, beautiful ...
Uranium is still poisoning Navajo land, water and children. But a new uranium mine is transporting ore across the Navajo Nation \u2014 and the people there can't stop it.
Navajo President Buu Nygren deployed tribal police Tuesday in an attempt to stop trucks carrying uranium ore from a mine south of the Grand Canyon, and accused the mine's operator of trying to ...
A company's decision to truck uranium through the Navajo Nation and Arizona — without providing notice or an emergency plan — was "unacceptable," the state's attorney general said Wednesday.
Navajo President Buu Nygren deployed tribal police Tuesday in an attempt to stop trucks carrying uranium ore from a mine south of the Grand Canyon, and accused the mine's operator of trying to ...
Congress is poised to revive payments to uranium miners and nuclear test downwinders through the Senate's version of the ...
Cheyenne Antonio, an advocate with Diné C.A.R.E, told Source that she asked Navajo Nation officials at a recent meeting about the prospect of uranium transport in New Mexico.
Congress is poised to revive a federal program that compensates uranium miners and people who lived downwind of nuclear bomb ...
Tsosie attended the second day of Navajo Nation Council with other former uranium miners and family members of uranium miners, who traveled to Washington, D.C., on a 38-hour bus ride last fall to ...
A $1 billion cleanup of abandoned uranium mines on the Navajo Reservation could soon begin under a record U.S. Department of Justice settlement announced Thursday. The $5.15 billion settlement ...
Victims of radiation exposure from federal uranium mining and nuclear testing on tribal lands in the Southwest could receive ...