but had known for a few weeks that the commission would go against community wishes and approve disposal of approximately 1 million cubic yards of mine waste not far from the Navajo Nation and the ...

Nearly 20 years after Peabody Mining closed its Black Mesa Mine and five years after the ... organization made up of members of the Navajo community in Black Mesa, or Dziłíjiin, who have ...

In 2006, Dine CARE members teamed up with the San Juan Citizens Alliance to file suit against the federal government to examine the direct health effects of both the Navajo mine and Four Corners.

A colleague of Rick Hendy, head of behavioral health at the Utah Navajo Health System, died of suicide in mid-August. While the mine spill no doubt compounded stress in the community, Hendy said ...

NENAHNEZAD — With its bell ringing, one of the new locomotives for the Navajo Mine exited a maintenance building today and was greeted by a crowd of people snapping photos on smartphones.

"Everyone else around the Navajo Nation is moving forward," said Percy Deal, who lives near the coal mine at Big Mountain. "We just need to go forward and start rebuilding the community around the ...

The mines located within Cameron are part of the Western Abandoned Mine Region, which includes 111 mines in total. Cameron is ...

PHOENIX — Navajo Nation political leaders are planning to ask the federal government for subsidies to keep a mine and generating station in northern Arizona open. The current owners of the coal ...

Nearly 20 years after Peabody Mining closed its Black Mesa Mine ... the community or someone from the outside. Black Mesa United is a nonprofit organization made up of members of the Navajo ...