{"id":101886,"date":"2018-01-16T09:40:32","date_gmt":"2018-01-16T16:40:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/company-to-assess-uranium-sites-on-navajo-nation\/"},"modified":"2018-01-16T09:40:32","modified_gmt":"2018-01-16T16:40:32","slug":"company-to-assess-uranium-sites-on-navajo-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/company-to-assess-uranium-sites-on-navajo-nation\/","title":{"rendered":"Company to assess uranium sites on Navajo Nation"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=6d8967a2-712d-4e37-b4ec-0f12a2bffaf1&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=6d8967a2-712d-4e37-b4ec-0f12a2bffaf1&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=800 800w, https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=6d8967a2-712d-4e37-b4ec-0f12a2bffaf1&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=1200 1200w, https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=6d8967a2-712d-4e37-b4ec-0f12a2bffaf1&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=1800 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 2000px\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1579\" alt=\"In this May 7, 1953, file photo, Navajo miners work at the Kerr-McGee uranium mine at Cove, Arizona, in 1953.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">In this May 7, 1953, file photo, Navajo miners work at the Kerr-McGee uranium mine at Cove, Arizona, in 1953.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Associated Press<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says EnPro Holdings Inc. will install fencing and signs warning residents and visitors of potential radiation exposure at sites in northeastern Arizona near Cameron and Tuba City. The company also will assess for radiation and conduct biological and cultural surveys.<\/p>\n<p>The work is expected to cost $500,000 and be complete by the end of the year.<\/p>\n<p>EnPro is the successor to the A&amp;B Mining Corp, which operated on the reservation in the 1950s.<\/p>\n<p>Uranium was mined extensively from the Navajo Nation for use in Cold War weapons production. Hundreds of mines were abandoned without being cleaned up.<\/p>\n<p>The tribe has banned uranium mining and processing since 2005.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>this May 7, 1953, file photo, Navajo miners work at the Kerr-McGee uranium mine at Cove, Arizona, in 1953.Associated Press The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says EnPro Holdings Inc. will install fencing and signs warning residents and visitors of potential radiation exposure at sites in northeastern Arizona near Cameron and Tuba City. The company [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":101887,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5736,5735],"tags":[3586,1897],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-101886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news","tag-arizona","tag-uranium"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101886\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101886"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=101886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}