Transition Minerals and Indigenous Impacts in the US Topline Recommended Reading

Untitled Transition Minerals and Indigenous Impacts in the US Topline z Navajo Nation residents have high levels of uranium in their bodies, compared to 5 percent of the U. [...] (source) z More than 600,000 Native Americans (about 15% of the Indigenous people in the West) live within approximately 6 miles of an abandoned mine (source) Recommended Reading z Among the key transition metals, 97% of nickel, 89% z Earthworks, Just Minerals Report of copper, 79% of lithium and 68% of cobalt reserves in the U. [...] are located within 35 miles of Native z Environmental Health Report, Mining and American reservations (source) Environmental Health Disparities in Native American Communities z e Trump administration initiated hardrock mining rules at both the Bureau of Land Management z Declaration on Mining and the Energy Transition and Fish and Wildlife Service. [...] Environmental and signed by 175 organizations Indigenous advocacy groups have called on the z Op-Ed: Our Ancestors’ Burial Ground is no place Biden administration last fall to propose changes to for a mine by Gary Mckinney the existing mining law and regulations that would strengthen community consent rights z Department of Interior’s Interagency Working z Group on Mining Reform According to the E. [...] American Communities z Dec 2022, Gizmado, Over Half the World’s Energy z 2013, Yale Environment, Boom in Mining Rare Transition Minerals Are on Indigenous Lands Earths Poses Mounting Toxic Risks A new analysis nds that many materials needed for the shi to clean energy are on Indigenous lands, where z Earthworks’ mining page mining could put vulnerable people at risk.