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11/14/2011 Navajo Times: 5-year uranium cleanup only the beginning
11/14/2011 Navajo Times: 5-year uranium cleanup only the beginning By Alastair Lee Bitsoi” Farmington – More than 100 people gathered here Tuesday (Nov. 
to hear updates from federal officials on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s five-year multi-agency plan to address the health and environmental impacts of uranium development on the Navajo Nation. Called the Navajo Uranium Contamination Stakeholder Workshop, it is a three-day summit held to update tribal officials and impacted Navajo community members on the progress of the plan, which is nearing completion.... Read More
Posted in cancer, environmental justice, fragile ecosystem, government accountability, injury to water quality, Navajo Environmental Protection Agency, Nuclear power, radioactive waste, uranium mining, US Environmental Protection Agency, US Environmental Protection Agency Superfund, Water
Tagged 5-year plan, abandoned uranium mines, Alastair Lee Bitsoi, ASTDR, Indian Health Service, Navajo Nation, Navajo Times, Navajo Uranium Contamination Stakeholder workshop, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, public health, Superfund, uranium contamination, uranium mining, US DOE, US EPA
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11/10/2011 Blog posting by Robert Sabie, Jr. FP uranium proximity map winner EPA apps for the environment challenge
11/10/2011 Blog Posting by Robert Sabie, Jr.: First off, I want to say how grateful I am to have had the opportunity to work with The Forgotten People. I was introduced to Marsha Monestersky, Program Director of Forgotten People during a phone conference back in January of 2011 by my professor, Troy Abel, whom Marsha had met at an EPA environmental justice forum in Washington D.C. That was my first time of hearing of the many issues that the Navajo people faced, especially in the Tuba City/Cameron area. I felt moved by the stories that Marsha told me. ... Read More
Posted in cancer, Climate Change, coal mining, Colorado River, environmental justice, fragile ecosystem, government accountability, Grand Canyon, injury to water quality, Navajo Environmental Protection Agency, Navajo Generating Station, Nuclear power, Peabody Coal Company, radioactive waste, skyline mine, uranium mining, US Environmental Protection Agency, US Environmental Protection Agency Superfund, Water
Tagged abandoned uranium mines, coal mining, contaminated water, enviornmental justice, EPA, Huxley College of the Environment, injury to water, Navajo Nation, uranium mining, US EPA, Western Washington University
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Vote for Western Washington University-Forgotten People Environmental Justice Participatory Mapping
Environmental Justice Participatory Mapping Vote for Western Washington University Forgotten People mapping Project About the submission: The online map developed in this project uses data from the EPA 2007 Abandon Uranium Mines and the Navajo Nation: Atlas with Geospatial Data to give citizens access to basic information on unregulated water sources and abandoned uranium mine features. The map also provides citizens with the basic tools to visulize the spatial elements of potential environmental hazards.... Read More
Posted in cancer, Climate Change, coal mining, Colorado River, drought, environmental justice, fragile ecosystem, government accountability, Grand Canyon, injury to water quality, Navajo Environmental Protection Agency, Navajo Generating Station, Nuclear power, Peabody Coal Company, radioactive waste, uranium mining, US Environmental Protection Agency Superfund, Water, Water and Sanitation, water rights
Tagged abandoned uranium mines, environmental advocacy, environmental justice, forgotten people, Forgotten People mapping project, geographic information systems, GIS, Navajo Nation, US EPA, US EPA Superfund, Western Washington University, WWU
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Four Corners Free Press: Living with the legacy of uranium on the Navajo Nation
Four Corners Free Press: Living with the legacy of uranium on the Navajo Nation By Sonja Horoshko: Box Springs, Ariz., is cut off by the Little Colorado River from access to any paved roads or the conveniences of groceries, gas stations, banks, electricity and power, not to mention jobs and economic development. But the community’s willingness to solve its own problems is gaining it recognition as one of the most pro-active areas on the Navajo Nation. Surrounding the tiny hamlet is the country in the Navajo Nation Western Agency referred to by some as “Cancer Alley” – the heart of leetsoii, the uranium belt stretching through the Navajo Nation to the Four Corners region.... Read More
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Tagged abandoned uranium mines, Box Springs, contaminated drinking water, forgotten people, Four Corners Free Press, IHS, Little CO River, Navajo Department of Water Resources, Navajo Nation, right to safe drinking water, Safe Drinking Water Hauling Feasibility Study and Pilot Project, Sonja Horosko, Tahonnie, unremediated abandoned uranium mines, uranium, uranium legacy, uranium mining, US EPA
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Addressing Uranium Contamination in the Navajo Nation
US EPA Pacific Southwest, Region 9 Serving: Arizona, California, Hawaii, Nevada, Pacific Islands, Tribal Nations: Addressing Uranium Contamination in the Navajo Nation: 
The lands of the Navajo Nation include 27,000 square miles spread over three states in the Four Corners area. The unique geology of these lands makes them rich in uranium, a radioactive ore in high demand after the development of atomic power and weapons at the close of World War II in the 1940s. From 1944 to 1986, nearly four million tons of uranium ore were extracted from Navajo lands under leases with the Navajo Nation. Many Navajo people worked the mines, often living and raising families in close proximity to the mines and mills.... Read More
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Tagged abandoned uranium mines, addressing uranium contamination in the Navajo Nation, atmoic power, contamination, Department of Energy, Five-Year Plan, Four Corners, Indian Health Service, legacy of uranium mining, Navajo EPA, Navajo Nation, Northeast Church Rock Mine, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Progress Report, radiation, radioactive waste, Region 9, Shiprock, Superfund, uranium, uranium contamination, US Environmental Protection Agency, US House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform
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Maps of proposed uranium transport route thru Navajo Nation & Proximity of Abandoned Uranium Mines (AUM’s) to water sources on Navajo Nation
Map of the proposed uranium transport route from the Grand Canyon through the Navajo Nation to White Mesa mill in Blanding, Utah 
Proximity map of abandoned uranium mines to water sources on the Navajo Nation These maps were provided by Robert Sabie, Huxley College of the Environment, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA under the guidance of Professor Troy Abel. Thank you!... Read More
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Tagged abandoned uranium mines, contaminated water, Grand Canyon, Huxley College of the Environment, mapping project, Navajo Nation, proximity map, uranium mining, uranium transport route, Western Washington University
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5/18/2011 Petition shines a light-Navajos ask feds to intervene against Nuclear Regulatory Commission
5/18/2011 Gallup Independent: Petition shines a light – Navajo asks feds to intervene against NRC By Kathy Helms, Dine Bureau: WINDOW ROCK – In Diné Indian Country in northwestern New Mexico, suffering is measured in milligrams per liter, millirems, and picocuries – units that measure radiation exposures, according to a petition filed with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights on behalf of Eastern Navajo Dine Against Uranium Mining. Eric Jantz, lead attorney on the New Mexico Environmental Law Center’s uranium cases, and Larry King of Churchrock – site of the largest nuclear disaster in U.S. history – held a press conference Monday at the National Press Club in Washington to discuss the petition filed Friday asking the Human Rights Commission to intervene with the United States to stop uranium mining within the Navajo Nation. After 16 years of fighting, the Law Center has exhausted all legal remedies to overturn the mining license granted by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission to Hydro Resources Inc., or HRI. ... Read More
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Tagged abandoned uranium mines, autoimmune disease, Churchrock, corn pollen, Crownpoint, diabetes, DiNEH Project, HRI, Hudro Resources Inc., human rights, Human Rights Commission, human rights violation, hypertension, Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, kidney disease, millirmes, New Mexico Environmental Law Center, nuclear disaster, Nuclear Regularory Commission, picocuries, public health, radiation exposure, radioactive waste, Rio Puerco, uranium cases, uranium mining, yellow dust
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