environmental damage

The Gold King Mine disaster continues to impact communities, including the Navajo Nation. New legislation aims to provide further compensation for affected farmers and families, still waiting for recovery aid.

The Trump Administration is directing federal agencies like the Department of the Interior to ramp up mining operations on federal public lands. The order singles out copper, uranium, potash, and gold.

More than a week after an oil spill on agricultural land near Shiprock, New Mexico, some Navajo residents in the area say they have concerns about the pace and scale of the environmental cleanup.

The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality recently granted an aquifer protection permit for a uranium mine near from a tribal community in the Grand Canyon, but the Havasupai Tribe still has concerns about the quality of its water. And avian influenza is suspected in Montezuma County.

The Radiation Exposure Compensation Act provides benefits to those impacted by the nuclear weapons industry. It's set to expire this summer and there are many alive that still qualify but haven’t collected.

A new report paints a bleak picture of radioactive waste at the White Mesa Uranium Mill in Southeast Utah. And Utah Senator Mitt Romney is looking for people to join a federal wildland fire commission.

Members of the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe and the Navajo Nation led a march on Saturday in protest against the operation of the only running uranium mill in the United States.

Axis Health System is merging with another healthcare provider, The Center for Mental Health; In Arizona, a federal judge has thrown out the Trump administration’s changes to the Clean Water Act.

For half a century, Navajo and Hopi lands were the site of one the largest coal mining operations in the west. The mines are now closed, but some are concerned about what’s been left behind. From the Navajo Nation, KJZZ’s Katherine Davis-Young has this report.

Piles of steel, heavy equipment and terrain destabilized by blasting through the desert still remain along parts of the U.S.-Mexico border.