The White Mesa Mill’s radioactive tailings impoundments are perched above the groundwater supply for most of southeastern Utah. Some worry the liners in the older impoundments may be leaking.
Confluence of the Green and White rivers, Michael Collier
Estonian company Enefit American Oil wants free access across American public land in order to strip mine Utah for oil shale. But water and air quality questions remain.
Estonian energy giant Enefit is pushing for the first commercial oil shale production facility in the U.S. in Utah's Uinta Basin. The BLM must stop it.
They are the West's most savvy water engineers. Here on the Colorado Plateau, ground zero for climate change, we humans have a lot to learn from these furry creatures.
