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Roberto Rosales / NM Political Report
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EPA finalizes plan to move uranium mine waste to landfill near Thoreau

By Hannah Grover Uranium mine waste rock that has been sitting for decades near the Navajo Nation community of Churchrock will be moved to a landfill six miles east of the Village of Thoreau. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency signed an action memo Monday finalizing the plan to transport the low-level radioactive material to the […]