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The Legacy of Mining endures

Human rights commission to hear uranium mining case

Jonathan P. Thompson
Aug 11, 2021
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The Legacy of Mining endures

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“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.…

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