Utah’s soils bear the scars of a nuclear past that continues to impact residents today. Between 1945 and 1962, nuclear tests at the Nevada Testing Grounds exposed Utah to nuclear fallout, and related ...

The Senate voted to expand compensation for victims of radiation exposure. Some Navajo Nation residents, who are among the most affected by nuclear fallout and environmental contamination, were ...

A sign identifies a repository near Edgemont where 4 million tons of radioactive tailings from a former uranium mill have been buried since the 1980s. (Seth Tupper/South Dakota Searchlight) The ...

Legislation to expand a program that compensates people who got sick after experiencing atomic radiation from nuclear bomb tests or uranium mining could have a new chance at passage, but Sen. Ben Ray ...

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A coalition of advocates and stakeholders called on Congress to take action in the lame-duck session to reauthorize the law compensating Americans exposed to nuclear radiation by the federal ...

A St. Louis advocacy group is fighting misinformation as it tries to steer people in the right direction.This is happening as ...

After decades of fighting, advocates for those who faced radiation exposure in Arizona and elsewhere are getting a big win through President Donald Trump’s One Big, Beautiful Bill. That push in ...

ST. LOUIS — Thursday, the House of Representatives narrowly passed President Donald Trump's massive policy bill. It includes something local advocates have been pushing for years now: compensation for ...

WASHINGTON — A program to compensate uranium miners and people who lived downwind of nuclear bomb testing then developed certain cancers came to an end last summer, but Sens. Ben Ray Luján and Martin ...