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Last week, the Energy Fuels White Mesa Mill announced it has commenced production at the facility and at two other locations in Utah and/or Arizona.

WHITE MESA, Utah — The day before the second anniversary of Bears Ears National Monument’s restoration and two days before Indigenous Peoples Day, tribal members from several Indigenous communities joined other supporters for the annual White Mesa spiritual walk and protest Oct. 7.

Interview: Tons of radioactive waste from Europe arrived in Utah mill, drawing protests-

LOS ANGELES, April 5 (Xinhua) -- Hundreds of metric tons of radioactive material from Europe have traveled to a mill in southeast Utah, the United States, drawing resistance from local tribes and environmental groups.

GLOBALink | Residents in U.S. West concerned over megadrought-

GLOBALink | Residents in U.S. West concerned over megadrought-

"I know we have this climate change, but they are sagebrush, the last weed in thousand years and lived through longer drought."Meanwhile, researchers noted that human-caused climate change was a significant driver of the destructive conditions and offered a grim prognosis: even drier decades lie ahead.

LOS ANGELES, Nov. 21 (Xinhua) -- "Children don't play outside anymore. You can smell the sulfur, the air smells really bad," Michael Badback, a Ute Mountain Ute Tribe citizen in the community of White Mesa of the U.S. state of Utah, expressed his grave concern over the impacts of the uranium mill just a few miles from his home.

Feature: Native American tribe protests U.S. only functioning uranium mill on sacred soil-

© Provided by Xinhua A study showed that the U.S. West had spent the last two decades in the most extreme megadrought in at least 1,200 years. Meanwhil