The Department of Energy is promoting uranium mining at places like the White Mesa Mill and is tasked with the pricey cleanup.
By Leslie Macmillan on May 30, 2014
The Grand Canyon Trust, an environmental group, has sued the operator of America’s last conventional uranium processing mill, saying its vast piles of spent ore and radioactive waste emit dangerous levels of radon and other toxins that violate the Clean Air Act.
The group and other critics of the White Mesa Mill near Blanding, Utah say it is a poorly disguised nuclear waste dump that would have gone out of business long ago were it not propped up by a lucrative federal contracts.
