Comment: The Federal government knew uranium mining causes cancer but did not protect their workers, they used miners as an experiment to exposure of uranium on humans. These people should be taken care of for the rest of their life and their family included for any DNA damage! Help our American people with this act!
By Kathy Helms
Diné Bureau
WINDOW ROCK — Post ’71 uranium workers employed as miners, millers and ore transporters between 1971 and 1982 have been trying for years to be recognized by the U.S. government as having illnesses that should be compensated under the federal Radiation Exposure Compensation Act.
During those years New Mexico’s uranium workers made up about one third to one half of all uranium workers in the United States. While a large number of them are ill, to date, they have no medical benefits as provided to pre-1971 victims, no compensation, and no one to go to bat for them in Washington. But that could be about to change.
Linda Evers of Post ’71 Uranium Workers Committee and Jennifer McCall of the Killian & Davis law firm in Grand Junction, Colo., said it is their understanding that Sen. Tom Udall, D-N.M., will introduce new RECA legislation during this session of Congress. Killian Davis has been lobbying for several years on behalf of the Navajo Nation to expand the scope of RECA...
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http://www.gallupindependent.com/2010/01January/012110uranium.html
