The Health and Environmental Impacts of Uranium Contamination in the Navajo Nation
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Oversight and Government Reform
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Published: 2008
Total Pages: 184
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Oversight and Government Reform
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Published: 2008
Total Pages: 184
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: United States. Congress
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2018-01-18
Total Pages: 184
ISBN-13: 9781983970665
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The health and environmental impacts of uranium contamination in the Navajo Nation : hearing before the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, House of Representatives, One Hundred Tenth Congress, first session, October 23, 2007.
Author: United States House of Representatives
Publisher:
Published: 2019-10-20
Total Pages: 184
ISBN-13: 9781701004603
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The health and environmental impacts of uranium contamination in the Navajo Nation: hearing before the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, House of Representatives, One Hundred Tenth Congress, first session, October 23, 2007.
Author: Eugene Stepp
Publisher:
Published: 2014-01-01
Total Pages: 202
ISBN-13: 9781633216785
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Four million tons of uranium ore were extracted from mines on the Navajo reservation primarily for developing the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile. For over 30 years, the Navajo people have lived with the environmental and health effects of uranium contamination from this mining. In 2008, five federal agencies adopted a 5-year plan that identified targets for addressing contaminated abandoned mines, structures, water sources, former processing sites, and other sites. Federal agencies also provide funding to Navajo Nation agencies to assist with the cleanup work. This book examines the extent to which the agencies achieved the targets set in the 5-year plan and the reasons why or why not; what is known about the future scope of work, time frames, and costs; and any key challenges faced by the agencies in completing this work and any opportunities to overcome them.
Author: Doug Brugge
Publisher: UNM Press
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9780826337795
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Based on statements given to the Navajo Uranium Miner Oral History and Photography Project, this revealing book assesses the effects of uranium mining on the reservation beginning in the 1940s.
Author: United States. Government Accountability Office
Publisher: CreateSpace
Published: 2015-01-01
Total Pages: 116
ISBN-13: 9781503373013
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In keeping with its trust responsibility with respect to Indian tribes, the federal government holds title to the Navajo and Hopi tribal land in trust for the benefit of the tribes and their members. In this context, this section provides information on (1) the Navajo Nation and Hopi Tribe; (2) uranium mining and processing on the Navajo reservation and its environmental effects; (3) Navajo people's exposure to uranium contamination and related health effects; (4) key statutes relevant to addressing uranium contamination; and (5) the roles of federal and tribal agencies and selected actions taken to address uranium contamination on the Navajo and Hopi reservations prior to 2008.
Author: Judy Pasternak
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2011-07-05
Total Pages: 338
ISBN-13: 1416594833
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Tells the story of uranium mining on the Navajo reservation and its legacy of sickness and government neglect, documenting one of the darker chapters in 20th century American history. --From publisher description.
Author: Traci Brynne Voyles
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Published: 2015-05-15
Total Pages: 333
ISBN-13: 1452944490
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Wastelanding tells the history of the uranium industry on Navajo land in the U.S. Southwest, asking why certain landscapes and the peoples who inhabit them come to be targeted for disproportionate exposure to environmental harm. Uranium mines and mills on the Navajo Nation land have long supplied U.S. nuclear weapons and energy programs. By 1942, mines on the reservation were the main source of uranium for the top-secret Manhattan Project. Today, the Navajo Nation is home to more than a thousand abandoned uranium sites. Radiation-related diseases are endemic, claiming the health and lives of former miners and nonminers alike. Traci Brynne Voyles argues that the presence of uranium mining on Diné (Navajo) land constitutes a clear case of environmental racism. Looking at discursive constructions of landscapes, she explores how environmental racism develops over time. For Voyles, the “wasteland,” where toxic materials are excavated, exploited, and dumped, is both a racial and a spatial signifier that renders an environment and the bodies that inhabit it pollutable. Because environmental inequality is inherent in the way industrialism operates, the wasteland is the “other” through which modern industrialism is established. In examining the history of wastelanding in Navajo country, Voyles provides “an environmental justice history” of uranium mining, revealing how just as “civilization” has been defined on and through “savagery,” environmental privilege is produced by portraying other landscapes as marginal, worthless, and pollutable.