20-Year Ban on New Uranium-Mining Claims in Grand Canyon Holds Up in Court

ICTMN Staff
March 22, 2013
The Havasupai Tribe, and the Grand Canyon watershed, won in U.S...
Charmaine White Face

No Amount of Uranium Is Safe

There is a situation brewing in western South Dakota that has quite a few people concerned about the safety of soldiers in the South Dakota Army National Guard. It’s not that they will be going overseas to fight....

Read more
February 11, 2013

NPR Exposes Loophole that Allows Dumping of Toxic Oil Residue on Wind River Reservation

ICTMN Staff
November 18, 2012
National Public Radio (NPR) has unearthed documents via the federal Freedom of Information Act that show how a legal loophole enables oil companies to let oil-laden wastewater flow...

Ongoing Health Study May Explain High Cancer Rates on Wind River Indian Reservation

Irina Zhorov
November 05, 2012
On the Wind River Indian Reservation in central Wyoming, an ongoing community health study may finally have the data to back up community members' claims about high cancer rates, a...

Overlooked Highway 160 Site on Navajo Nation Now Cleaned Up

Anne Minard
February 02, 2012
The Navajo Nation is celebrating the hard-won “clean closure” of a uranium waste dumping ground that was overlooked during federal cleanup efforts in the 1990s...

Anishinabek Invoke NIMBY Clause for Radioactive Material

ICTMN Staff
January 21, 2012
Aboriginals keeping close tabs on Bruce Power’s plans to ship nuclear waste north are reiterating their opposition to the idea in the wake of revelations that Canada has shipped at...

Decision on Mt. Taylor Uranium Mine Due After September 1

ICTMN Staff
August 21, 2011
[Editor's note: An earlier version of this post stated that the New Mexico Mining and Minerals Department was to deliver its decision on this matter on September 1...

Cleaning Up Uranium in the Navajo Nation

ICTMN Staff
May 31, 2011
Cleanup of uranium-tainted Skyline Mine site within Navajo Nation is underway; it's a welcome undertaking, reports the Salt Lake Tribune , but residents still have some cause for c...

Navajos Appeal to Inter-American Commission on Human Rights over Proposed Uranium Mining

ICTMN Staff
May 16, 2011
The Eastern Navajo Diné is appealing to the international community to stop uranium mining in the Navajo villages of Church Rock and Crownpoint, New Mexico, attorneys for the tribe...

AZ Grants Grand Canyon–area Permits to Uranium Mining Co.

ICTMN Staff
March 13, 2011
Even as the U.S...

Pages

Around The Web

Accused Cleveland Kidnapper Plans to Plead Not Guilty
IRS challenges public's confidence in government
At least 6 killed, scores injured in Texas tornadoes
Boston bombings suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev left note in boat
Toronto mayor strongly denies smoking crack in video