- People who lived downwind of the uranium mill in Monticello used to tell stories of bringing in their laundry from the line covered in yellow dust. The town also had sky-high rates of several different kinds of cancer. Stretches credulity to deny offhand that those two facts could be related.
- Heads up to folks in southeast Utah. Our elected officials are pushing ahead to host spent nuclear fuel. The Moab mayor and a Grand County commissioner joined Republican-led counties in voting to submit a formal application to the Department of Energy.
- Yeah, correlation doesn't necessarily mean causation...but "presence of known cancer-causing substance" and "cancer" is a strong enough link that the state government now offers free cancer screenings for anyone who lived in San Juan County for any extended period of time before 2002.
- Cannot stress enough for people who have not lived in the rural, mined-out parts of the West how much of the physical history of the region is people extracting minerals and then running away from the cleanup.
