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Uranium clean up stalled: Navajos are still fighting for Congress to act.(NEWS)
PERHAPS NOWHERE IN THE UNITED STATES is the impact of nuclear disaster more acute than on the Navajo reservation, a 26,000-square-mile expanse that covers parts of Arizona, Utah and New Mexico and is home to about 250,000 people. "The rez," as locals call it, is pockmarked with more than 1,300 abandoned uranium mines, two-thirds of which have never been remediated. Between the 1950s and 1980s, hundreds of Navajos worked in the mines and nearby mills, where the highly radioactive "yellowcake" ore was pulverized. Then the price for uranium dropped, and most of the mining companies moved, leaving a legacy of contaminated land, air and water the tribe is still battling today.
The issue had been relatively dormant until last October, when Rep. Henry Waxman, moved by a series on the Navajos' plight in the Los Angeles Times, called a hearing before the House Committee on Oversight and Governmental Reform, which the California Democrat chairs.
Members of the committee appeared shocked as Navajos recounted a legacy of cancer and deformed livestock in areas near the unreclaimed mine sites. Waxman called the federal agencies responsible for uranium cleanup on the carpet, but at a follow-up meeting in December, they had still ...
- Garbage water leaks into storm water pond: Kootenai officials don't believe...
- Newspaper article from: Spokesman-Review (Spokane, WA) January 27, 2006 700+ words
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- News wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News September 18, 2009 700+ words
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- Baby drowns in water pond.
- News wire article from: PPI - Pakistan Press International March 20, 2006 700+ words
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- Fish thrive in Pandacan depot's waste-water pond.(Main Business)
- Newspaper article from: Manila Bulletin September 6, 2009 700+ words
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- Claude Pepper: A Crusader Remembered
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Post Sandy Rovner June 6, 1989 700+ words
...appeared before television cameras with shredded umbrellas sporting huge holes. Leaky. Health subcommittee chairman Waxman called Pepper "our conscience." As a result of Pepper's prodding, the measure was filled out somewhat, although not nearly...
- Democrat Says Ohio Project Benefits from Attempt to Stifle HIV, AIDS Research.
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News October 29, 2003 700+ words
...devised the list of 150 projects that receive federal support so they could attempt to subvert research on HIV and AIDS. Waxman called the list "scientific McCarthyism" that represents an attempt to impose "ideological shackles" on researchers. On Tuesday...
- House committee rips Clinton over travel firings
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times PETE YOST September 19, 1996 700+ words
...office," concluded the report by Clinger's Government Reform and Oversight Committee. Ranking minority member Henry Waxman called the report "shameful" and a "political smear." The White House issued a report of its own characterizing the Republican...
- Drugs Much Cheaper in U.K., Study Says
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times February 3, 1994 700+ words
...proposal would seek to bring down drug prices through regional health alliances that would bargain with companies on prices. Waxman called the president's proposal "a good starting point for dealing with this issue." The pharmaceutical industry said the study...