A year after Congress allowed a radiation compensation program to lapse, former Navajo uranium miners and their families want the aid restored.

More than 100 people gathered in Forest Lake to talk about the prospect of more coal mining and almost all opposed the idea.

All of it is happening while people continue to suffer without any relief from more than four decades of uranium mining on the Navajo Nation, as well as the more than 500 abandoned uranium mines ...

All of it is happening while people continue to suffer without any relief from more than four decades of uranium mining on the Navajo Nation, as well as the more than 500 abandoned uranium mines ...

All of it is happening while people continue to suffer without any relief from more than four decades of uranium mining on the Navajo Nation, as well as the more than 500 abandoned uranium mines ...

During an address to the Navajo Nation Council he said he wanted to clear up misinformation regarding coal and uranium. "Related to coal, my commitment is not to reopen closed mines.