Navajo uranium miners at the Rico Mine in Southwestern Colorado in 1953. Photo courtesy of The Navajo Uranium Miner Oral History and Photography Project at the Center for Southwest Research, ...

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 ...

Tina Cordova, a founder of the Tularosa Basin Downwinders Consortium, protests in support of RECA expansion on Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2024. (Danielle Prokop/Source NM) In June of 2024 during the 118th ...

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For more than three decades, the federal government sought to make amends to countless Americans who developed cancer after being exposed to radiation from nuclear testing in the Southwest or while ...

For Karen Nickel, reviving and expanding the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act was bittersweet. Nickel and Dawn Chapman were part of Just Moms STL, a group that's been raising awareness and seeking ...

U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley was able to include the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act in a major budgetary package signed by President Trump last week. It expands the number of Missouri residents who can ...

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 ...

RECA compensation is for anyone who lived, worked or attended school in 21 ZIP codes and developed certain cancers or diseases due to radiation exposure.

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 ...

NEW MEXICO (KRQE) –The New Mexico Department of Justice is warning people about a scam targeting those affected by the first atomic bomb test. The NMDOJ said organizations and attorneys have reached ...