Ryan Heinsius

The reopening of a uranium mine near the Grand Canyon has the Navajo Nation and Arizona's attorney general questioning its safety.

The U.S. Department of Energy is partnering with private solar companies to bring electricity to hundreds of the most remote homes on the Navajo Reservation.

The U.S. Department of Energy is partnering with companies that make and install solar panels to serve the 20% to 30% of Navajo and Hopi households without grid-connected electricity.

KNAU News Talk - Arizona Public Radio | By Ryan Heinsius

KNAU News Talk - Arizona Public Radio | By Ryan Heinsius

KNAU News Talk - Arizona Public Radio | By Ryan Heinsius

The company that owns a uranium mine near the South Rim of the Grand Canyon has resumed trucking ore from the site. It follows an agreement with Navajo Nation officials last month to allow the shipments to cross the reservation.

Some of Trump's most ardent supporters in Congress are pressing colleagues to revive a key federal compensation program that directs payments to those sickened decades ago by atomic weapons testing.

Last summer, Congress allowed a program to compensate victims of Cold War-era radiation exposure to expire. Thousands of downwinders, as they’re known, have suffered from serious cancers and other diseases for decades, and many have died as the result of nuclear weapons testing and manufacturing. Now, a new bipartisan effort by advocates and lawmakers to both revive and expand the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act is picking up steam.

Navajo Nation officials this week addressed ongoing concerns about the recent restart of uranium ore hauling through the reservation.