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The 1872 Mining Act must be changed!

The 1872 Mining Act is an outdated Federal law that gives mining companies easy access to public lands to mine for uranium. They are allowed to mine for uranium even if it contaminates water supplies and threatens health. If the law isn’t changed, we may see more uranium mining in the Gallup area and around Navajo Nation.

Your Senator Jeff Bingaman needs to hear from all of us that this law must be changed.  Please call Senator Bingaman, state your name and what county you live in, then urge him to protect our health and water by adopting a new uranium mining law.

This is the team working to promote green jobs
instead of coal and uranium mining on the Navajo Nation.

Call right now and leave a message Senator Bingaman (800) 443-8658.
Thanks for joining our team. With your help we can keep big corporations from contaminating our water.

Click here to view a copy of the Dine National Resources Protection Act, whose purpose is "to ensure that no further damage to the culture, society and economy of the Navajo Nation occurs because of uranium mining within the Navajo Nation and the Navajo Indian Country and that that no further damage to the culture, society and economy of the Navajo Nation occurs because of uranium processing until all adverse economic, environmental and human health effects from past uranium mining and processing have been eliminated or substantially reduced to the satisfaction of the Navajo Nation Council."