![Members of the Church Rock and Crownpoint communities are petitioning to keep the United States and the Canadian mining company Laramide Resources, Inc. from opening four uranium mines. Photo Credit: Courtesy](/images/resized/images/news/2016/330_jul30/8_100_100.jpg)
Grassroots nonprofit challenges USA, NRC, State of New Mexico
The petition of a grassroots nonprofit known as Eastern Navajo Diné Against Uranium Mining to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, has been declared “admissible.”
New Mexico Environmental Law Center attorney Eric Jantz says that single word — “admissible” — is a major step forward.
“The take-home here is that the United States has been violating human rights in a context of uranium mining for generations,” he explained. “This is the first time that the state [New Mexico] and the U. S. have been forced to account for those violations.”
The petition alleges that the United States “by its...