URGENT ACTION ALERT: Support Diné Community Resisting “Unacceptable” Uranium Mine Cleanup
Join the Red Water Pond Road community’s demand for the highest standard and quality of cleanup of for the Northeast Churchrock Uranium Mine! Members of the Diné community Red Water Pond Road are opposing current Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) plans for “cleanup” of a decades old uranium mine that has polluted their lands and lives with radioactive contamination. The EPA is proposing to move a portion of the deadly waste from the Northeast Churchrock Uranium Mine less than a mile from its current location and moving the rest to an undetermined location. The Red Water Pond Road Community Association and the Navajo Nation has declared the plan “insufficient” and “unacceptable.” Diné want the waste out, not buried and covered up or hauled and dumped for other Indigenous communities to deal with.…
