Briefs here.
uranium mining
Ninth Circuit Rejects Havasupai/Kaibab Paiute Challenge to Uranium Mine
Here is the opinion in Center for Biological Diversity v. Salazar. From the court’s summary:
The panel affirmed the district court’s judgment in favor of the Secretary of the Interior and the U.S. Bureau of Land Management in an action challenging the decision to allow Denison Mines Corp. to restart mining operations at the Arizona 1 Mine. As a threshold issue, the panel held that a decision made by a prior panel of this court affirming the district court’s denial of appellants’ preliminary injunction motion did not become law of the case as to any issue. The panel held that the Bureau of Land Management did not violate the National Environmental Policy Act, the Federal Land Policy and Management Act, and BLM’s own regulations, by permitting Denison Mines to restart mining operations under a plan of operations that BLM approved in 1988. The panel also held that BLM’s update of the Arizona 1 Mine reclamation bond should not be set aside. Finally, the panel held that BLM’s application of the categorical exclusion for issuance of the Robinson Wash gravel permit was not arbitrary and capricious or otherwise not in accordance with law.
Briefs and materials here.
Materials in Ninth Circuit Challenge to Uranium Mine Permit by Havasupai Nation
NYTs Article on Abandoned Uranium Mines at Navajo
Here.
Navajo Group Petition to Human Rights Commission
Here’s a copy of the Petition filed by ENDAUM (Eastern Navajo Diné Against Uranium Mining) with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to challenge the NRC’s issuance of a uranium mining license to HRI.
Ninth Circuit Affirms Denial of Preliminary Injunction in Uranium Mining Case Involving Kaibab Paiute and Havasupai Tribes
NPR Talk of the Nation — “Yellow Dirt”: The Legacy of Navajo Uranium Mining
From NPR (the audio will be available at 6 PM eastern):
In her book Yellow Dirt: An American Story of a Poisoned Land and a People Betrayed, former Los Angeles Times reporter Judy Pasternak documents the toxic legacy of uranium mining in the Navajo lands of northeastern Arizona, where radioactive dust wound up in Navajo homes and drinking water.
Tenth Circuit Upholds Uranium Mining Leases in Navajo Indian Country
Tenth Circuit to Hear HRI v. EPA En Banc
Here is the order (CA10 Order Granting En Banc Review), the earlier materials (here), the news report from Indianz, and here are the en banc petition stage materials:
EPA Opposition to En Banc Petition
Turtle Talk 