Russell Begaye stared into a hole in the side of a Colorado mountain, watching yellow water contaminated with heavy metals gush out and race down a slope toward a creek that feeds rivers critical to survival on the largest Native American reservation in the United States and in other parts of the Southwest. At the Gold…
Navajo Nation takes brunt of mine leak
Begaye, president of the Navajo Nation, said his tribe is bearing the brunt of the massive spill that was accidentally unleashed by EPA workers