Navajo Nation to test limit of uranium mining law on tribal land A uranium ore pile is the first to be mined at the Energy Fuels Inc. uranium Pinyon Plain Mine on Jan. 31, near Tusayan, Arizona.

The Navajo Nation and Energy Fuels Inc., the owner of the White Mesa Mill in Blanding, have reached an agreement for the future transport of uranium ore across the reservation into Utah.

The Navajo Nation's opposition to uranium transport is deeply rooted in its history. From 1944 to 1990, extensive uranium mining on Navajo lands led to severe health issues and environmental ...

Navajo Nation leaders and citizens continue to voice their opposition and concern over Energy Fuels's uranium ore transport ...

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

Indigenous communities have taken steps to prohibit uranium mining and transportation on their lands due to the history of contamination, illness and death. Trucks with uranium cross Navajo Nation ...

Tsosie attended the second day of Navajo Nation Council with other former uranium miners and family members of uranium miners, who traveled to Washington, D.C., on a 38-hour bus ride last fall to ...

Victims of radiation exposure from federal uranium mining and nuclear testing on tribal lands in the Southwest could receive ...

Cheyenne Antonio, an advocate with Diné C.A.R.E, told Source that she asked Navajo Nation officials at a recent meeting about the prospect of uranium transport in New Mexico.

“The Navajo Nation has suffered longstanding impacts from uranium mining conducted during the Cold War era,” said Mark Chalmers, president and CEO of Energy Fuels, in a press release earlier ...