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The federal Environmental Protection Agency has awarded $220 million in contracts to clean up 50 of the estimated 500 abandoned uranium mine sites on the Navajo Reservation. The three companies will focus on 50 of the highest priority sites, with money from a $1 billion settlement from the mining company Kerr McGee Corporation and its successor, Tronox. The EPA and the Navajo Nation have so far secured agreements to clean up about 200 of the 500 known sites. However, the agency has fenced or stabilized just 29 mine sites, decades after their abandonment. Rep. Tom O’Halleran, whose distri...

.......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... An old United Nuclear Corp. building near the Church Rock uranium mine, northeast of Gallup. The EPA has awarded $220 million in contracts for cleanup of 50 abandoned uranium mine sites in the region. (Jim Thompson/Albuquerque Journal) Copyright © 2021 Albuquerque Journal The U.S. nuclear weapons program during the Cold War required a steady supply of uranium. But, after 30 million tons of the met...

EPA awards $220 million for uranium mine cleanup on Navajo Nation From the late 1940s through the 1960s, Kerr-McGee mined more than 7 million tons of ore on or near the Navajo Nation, leaving behind uranium mine sites. Credit: Danika Worthington Klee Benally of the Navajo Nation at a 2016 protest outside the Environmental Protection Agency in Washington, demanding cleanup of abandoned uranium mines. Even though mining stopped decades ago – and was banned by the tribe in 2005 – the fight to clean up the toxic sites has lingered. Author: Cronkite News, Haleigh Kochanski ...