WHITE MESA, Utah — In the kitchen of his sister’s weathered, single-story home, Michael Badback thrusts a blue plastic cup under the faucet, fills it halfway and trudges into her living room.
“Smell... Read Original Story
WHITE MESA, Utah — Aldean Ketchum has played his people’s traditional flute across the Southwest.
“These are our homelands where my people lived and survived here for thousands of years,” he said.... Read Original Story
An exposed waste impoundment cell at the Energy Fuels’ White Mesa Mill in southeast Utah is out of compliance with federal Clean Air Act standards, according to the Environmental Protection Agency... Read Original Story
In December, the Environmental Protection Agency warned that a uranium mill in southern Utah was in violation of environmental guidelines.
Conservationists have found little has changed since then.... Read Original Story
Uranium mines are personal for Dariel Yazzie.
Now head of the Navajo Nation’s Superfund program, Yazzie grew up near Monument Valley, Arizona, where the Vanadium Corporation of America started... Read Original Story
Some U.S. lawmakers, unhappy with American nuclear power plants’ reliance on imported Russian uranium, are pushing for a ban on those purchases. About 16% of the uranium that fuels the electricity-... Read Original Story
A new study from The Nature Conservancy says thinning ponderosa pines can save trees in the long run. The research modeled what will happen to northern Arizona forests as the climate grows hotter and... Read Original Story
When President Joe Biden ran for office, he pledged support for tribal communities. Now one Arizona tribe is calling on Biden to fulfill that pledge.
The Havasupai Tribe has written a letter to the... Read Original Story
