[CPEO-MEF] Navajo uranium

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Navajos seek funds to clear uranium contamination
Tribal officials ask Congress for $500 million to deal with wastes left 
by mining for bombs, nuclear power plants.

By Judy Pasternak
Los Angeles Times
October 24, 2007

WASHINGTON - Navajo tribal officials asked Congress on Tuesday for at 
least $500 million to finish cleaning up lingering contamination on the 
Navajo reservation in the American Southwest from Cold War-era uranium 
mining, an industry nurtured by its only customer until 1971: the United 
States government.

The tribe also sought a moratorium on new mining in Navajo country, 
which extends beyond the formal reservation borders into New Mexico, 
until environmental damage from the last round is repaired.

The requests came at a hearing of the House Committee on Oversight and 
Government Reform, marked by angry exchanges between the members and 
officials from five federal agencies with varying degrees of 
responsibility for protecting Navajo health and the environment.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.latimes.com/features/health/la-na-navajo24oct24,1,1243068.story?coll=la-headlines-health&ctrack=3&cset=true

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
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