Court: Planned NM Uranium Mine Not on Navajo Land

“Eric Jantz, an attorney for the Santa Fe, N.M.-based [New Mexico] Environmental Law Center, which represents mining opponents, called the ruling tragic. ‘Frankly, I don’t think the state has much of a stake in this in terms of people with political power,‘ he said. ‘Who is going to assure that this community’s water isn’t going to get polluted. The federal government, the EPA is going to be a much better guardian of that than the state.‘ “ Associated Press

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