Trust is in short supply that the EPA will follow through on promises to clean up uranium mine contamination that has sickened generations of Navajo people, tribal members told agency officials visiting a contaminated mining area on Friday in Arizona.
The EPA added the uranium mining area, known as the Lukachukai Mountains Mining District, to the National Priorities List, or Superfund, on March 5. The site includes about 100 uranium and vanadium mine waste piles which have contaminated the soil and streamwater and groundwater in nearby Navajo communities.
About 30 million tons of uranium ore ...
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