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Western States Brace for a Uranium Boom as the Nation Looks to Recharge its Nuclear Power Industry

After years of federal efforts to revive nuclear power, old mines are stirring again in Wyoming, Texas and Arizona, while new ones line up for permitting expedited by a Trump executive order.

By Jake Bolster, Dylan Baddour, Wyatt Myskow

Loretta Johnson stands by a water well on the Navajo Nation in New Mexico. According to an EPA report, the well produces water tainted with arsenic. Credit: Jerry Redfern/Capital & Main

On the Navajo Nation, the List of Mystery Wells Continues to Grow

By Jerry Redfern, Capital & Main

Red Feather staff (from left) Duane Tsinigine, Tavanne Sousa and Tyler Puente stand next to a heat pump installed with the nonprofit’s help at a home on the Hopi Reservation. Credit: Wyatt Myskow/Inside Climate News

EPA Grants Were Set to Address Health Risks on the Hopi and Navajo Reservations, Until the Trump Administration Cut Them

By Wyatt Myskow

An abandoned oil well sits on a hillside on Tribal land near Farmington, N.M. Credit: Jerry Redfern/Capital & Main

Many on Navajo Nation Blindsided by Hydrogen Pipeline Change

By Jerry Redfern, Capital & Main

A view of a surface coal mine in the Powder River Basin. Credit: Bureau of Land Management Wyoming

How Will Trump’s Effort to Revitalize Coal Play Out in the Nation’s Most Productive Coal Fields?

By Jake Bolster

Tennile Lopez (left) shapes blue corn dough while Bertha Etsitty (right) explains the process of blue corn mush on Nov. 25 at the food gathering summit held by Diné College's Land Grant Office. Credit: Noel Lyn Smith/Inside Climate News

Traditional Foods, and the Threats They Face, Take Center Stage at Navajo Summit

By Noel Lyn Smith

Mike Halona, executive director of the Navajo Nation Division of Natural Resources, talks about the purpose of the tribe’s energy summit on June 5 in Albuquerque. Credit: Noel Lyn Smith/Inside Climate News

Navajo Summit Looks at History and Future of Tribe’s Relationship With Energy

By Noel Lyn Smith

From left: Amelia Flores, Colorado River Indian Tribes chairwoman, Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland and Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs approve the tribe’s authority to lease, exchange or store its portion of Colorado River water. Credit: Noel Lyn Smith/Inside Climate News

Historic Agreement with the Federal Government and Arizona Gives Colorado River Indian Tribes Control Over Use of Their Water off Tribal Land

By Noel Lyn Smith

A sign with a skull and crossbones that translates as ‘No uranium’ in the Diné language warns visitors near the Church Rock mining site in Navajo Nation. Credit: Eli Cahan

‘We’re Losing Our People’

By Eli Cahan, Capital & Main

Long time coal miner Billy Griffith pauses while working at a coal prep plant on May 19, 2017 outside the city of Welch, West Virginia. Credit: Spencer Platt/Getty Images

As the US Pursues Clean Energy and the Climate Goals of the Paris Agreement, Communities Dependent on the Fossil Fuel Economy Look for a Just Transition

By Judy Fahys

Phil Harrison views a uranium loading bin left behind from the mining era, which stretched from the 1940s to the 1980s. Credit: Cheyanne M. Daniels/MNS

The US Nuclear Weapons Program Left ‘a Horrible Legacy’ of Environmental Destruction and Death Across the Navajo Nation

By Cheyanne M. Daniels

Nancy Bitsue, an elderly member of the Navajo Nation, receives her monthly water delivery in the town of Thoreau on June 6, 2019 in Thoreau, New Mexico. Credit: Spencer Platt/Getty Images

The Pandemic Exposed the Severe Water Insecurity Faced by Southwestern Tribes

By Judy Fahys

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