The Legacy of Mining endures

Human rights commission to hear uranium mining case

“In Diné Indian Country in northwestern New Mexico, suffering is measured in milligrams per liter, millirems, and picocuries.”

—From the Eastern Navajo Diné Against Uranium Mining petition to the Inter-American Human Rights Commission

From: “Radioactivity in the Environment—A Case Study of the Puerco and Little Colorado River Basins,” by Laurie Wirt, U.S.…