A mining company and regulators failed to clean up waste from a uranium processing mill in a small New Mexico community. Now the company wants to hand the site over to the Department of Energy — they just need to get rid of the residents first. KZMU speaks with investigative reporter Mark Olalde of ProPublica about his reporting on this story.

// Show Notes:

// ProPublica: A Uranium Ghost Town in the Making

https://www.propublica.org/article/new-mexico-uranium-homestake-pollution

// John Boomer Arts

https://www.facebook.com/people/John-Boomer-Arts/100054373156642/

// A Uranium Ghost Town in the Making: John Boomer song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_6d-C_HX-s

// Photo: An aerial view of Grants, New Mexico and areas around the Homestake uranium mill is seen in 2007. Creative Commons/"Grants NM aerial 2007 by Doc Searls from Santa Barbara, USA."