NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – A federal agency said seven more abandoned uranium mines will be cleaned up on Navajo land in New Mexico.The EPA said it will target the sites near Smith Lake and Mariano ...

NEW MEXICO (KRQE ... Congress passed the Good Samaritan Remediation of Abandoned Hardrock Mines Act which will make it easier for state agencies and nonprofits to conduct cleanups and improve ...

Uranium mining between the 1940s and the 1970s in and around the Navajo Nation left cancer and pollution in its wake.

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particularly in the Permian Basin straddling Texas and New Mexico. Those two states are already responsible for cleaning up about 7,000 such abandoned wells, a task that will cost at least $335 ...

But the old mines also left behind a legacy of trouble for today’s Westerners. Abandoned mines dot the Western landscape, polluting the region’s streams with acid mine drainage and connecting the ...

said to the New Mexican. Even if mining companies "would like to clean up abandoned sites in an area, the liability hurdles make it challenging." Justin Klawans has worked as a staff writer at The ...

Now a new and perhaps even more vexing concern has emerged: Highway sinkholes stemming from long-abandoned mines. Three sinkholes have opened up along I-80 in Wharton since late December.