Navajos Ask U.S. Supreme Court to Overturn License for Mining Uranium on Tribal Lands

摘要

Members of the Navajo Nation have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a license to mine uranium on tribal lands in New Mexico, mining the petitioners say could expose them to unhealthy levels of radiation (Morris v. NRC, U.S., No. 10-368, 9/15/10).rnEastern Navajo Dine Against Uranium Mining and others on Sept. 15 challenged a March 8 opinion by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit, which upheld a license granted to Hydro Resources Inc., a non-Indian mining company, for operations in the Navajo Nation's Church Rock and Crownpoint chapters in McKinley County, N.M. (Morris v. NRC, 598 F.3d 677, 70 ERC 1097 (10th Cir., 2010); 41 ER 554, 3/12/10).