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Diné CARE, a Navajo environmentalist group ... from across the Western U.S. A band of yellow smog drifts from New Mexico’s Four Corners Power Plant, which is out of view.
The Navajo Nation and the state of New Mexico have reached multimillion-dollar settlements with mining companies to resolve claims stemming from a 2015 spill that resulted in rivers in three ...
Energy Fuels also owns the Roca Honda mine near Mount Taylor in New Mexico. The shortest route from Roca Honda to the White Mesa Mill in Utah also runs through the Navajo Nation. Energy Fuels ...
DENVER— In a major victory for clean air and public health, a federal judge issued an order on Tuesday that nullifies a plan to expand the Navajo Mine in northern New Mexico and stops coal mining in ...
FARMINGTON — The State of New Mexico and the Navajo Nation have settled part of a lawsuit filed in the aftermath of the Gold King Mine spill. Sunnyside Gold Corp. and its parent companies ...
RED WATER POND ROAD, New Mexico—As Tony Hood walked along New Mexico Highway 566 last Saturday, he thought about where he was 45 years earlier, when an earthen dam broke at the site of a uranium ...
Public Service Company of New Mexico, signaled years ago that it ... Decades later, she's a journeyman electrician at Navajo Mine and a union member. Her income supports dozens of family members.
who grew up near an abandoned uranium mine in New Mexico. "It's been really scary, just being a mom in this area." Navajo researcher Tommy Rock outside Sanders Elementary School. 'You'd probably ...
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 ...
A year after Congress allowed a radiation compensation program to lapse, former Navajo uranium miners and their families want ...
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The Navajo Nation’s ... The state of New Mexico also confirmed Wednesday that it has reached a settlement with the mining companies. Under that agreement, $10 million ...
Public Service Company of New Mexico, signaled years ago that it ... Christina Aspaas is a journeyman electrician at the Navajo Mine, a surface coal mine on Navajo land. Dozens of her family ...