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Indigenous representatives from the Northern Great Plains & the Southwest nations need your support to travel to DC for meetings and presentations addressing radioactive impacts in their communities.
Your contribution will be used to cover transportation costs for the delegations.
The Issue:
Radioactive pollution is an invisible national crisis with millions of Americans being exposed on a daily basis. Exposure to radioactive pollution has been linked to cancer, genetic defects, and increases in mortality.
From the toxic legacy of more than 15,000 abandoned uranium mines (AUMs), extreme water contamination, surface strip coal mining and coal fired power plants with coal laced with uranium, radioactive waste from Fracking in the Bakken Oil Range, weapons testing, waste storage, and renewed mining threats to sacred places, Native American nations of North America are the miners’ canaries for the United States trying to awaken the people of the world to the dangers of radioactive pollution.
All our communities also face increased peril of radioactive pollution under the EPA’s Clean Power Plan (CPP). The CPP states that “Nuclear power is part of an ‘all the above’ energy strategy that… protects the planet for future generations.” The EPA expects “nuclear power to be a key partner in achieving the goals of the CPP.” (1)
Public Awareness & Legislative Action:
Ardyce Taken Alive (Oceti Sakowin), Defenders of the Black Hills
Harold One Feather (Oceti Sakowin), Defenders of the Black Hills
JD Buckley (Dakota), Defenders of the Black Hills
TBA
- FACT SHEET: Clean Power Plan – Opportunities for Nuclear Power, http://www.epa.gov/cleanpowerplan/fact-sheet-clean-power-plan-opportunities-nuclear-power
