Gallup area news

New Mexico Environmental Law Center

This weekend, the 10,000th person signed the Change.org petition to prevent uranium mining in Church Rock, NM! We're not stopping now -- let's make it 20,000 emails to the EPA! Thanks to the first 10K signatories!

EPA: Don't Sacrifice Navajo Water for Uranium Mining

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The Colorado Plateau of New Mexico still bears the unhealed sores of the Uranium Boom of the last century – radioactive waste piles,...

 

 

Native News Wire

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Navajo President Ben Shelly Meets With Senator Jon Kyl to Discuss Water Settlement | Navajo Nation W

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WASHINGTON – Navajo Nation President Ben Shelly met with Arizona Sen. Jon Kyl last Thursday to discuss the Navajo-Hopi Little Colorado River Water Settlement Agreement and its companion legislation, S 2109.

 

High Country News

It's gonna be a dry one -- this year and many more. Here's our update of what's up with the Colorado River.

The Colorado River and Big Daddy drought

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Low snowfall = less water = more stress, in the seven states fed by the Colorado River