ARIZONA
Navajo Nation and Havasupai Tribe:
Greenaction supports efforts by the Navajo/Dine grassroots organizations Diné C.A.R.E., Red Water Pond Road Community Association, and Bidí Roots who are working to have uranium contamination from old uranium mines properly cleaned up and safely disposed of, without sending the uranium ore to be dumped at Energy Fuels’ “mill” next to the White Mesa Ute Community in southern Utah. We also support their efforts opposing new uranium mining on the lands of the Navajo Nation.
Greenaction supports the Havasupai Tribe in their fight against Energy Fuels’ Pinyon Plain Mine located on their traditional lands near the Grand Canyon. Greenaction supports this Tribe in their efforts to work towards a clean and equitable future in which radioactive materials on their lands are cleaned up without shipping radioactive waste to the Energy Fuels’ uranium mill next to the White Mesa Ute Community.
Gila River Indian Community, Arizona:
Greenaction and the grassroots tribal member organization the Gila River Alliance for a Clean Environment have worked together since 2000 on many environmental health and justice issues on this reservation near Phoenix. Together we have won several big victories, including closing down two major polluting industries that imported waste from around the west, the Romic hazardous waste plant and the Stericycle medical waste incinerator. Our recent efforts are focused on diesel pollution and protection of culturally important sites.
O’ohdam lands in Arizona and Mexico:
Greenaction and the O’odham Rights Coalition have worked together since 2006 to protect the O’odham ceremonial site and village of Quitovac in Sonora, Mexico from desecration and pollution. Together we defeated plans for a hazardous waste landfill proposed close to Quitovac.
Quechan Indian Tribe, Arizona :
Greenaction is honored to have worked with the Quechan Tribe, Elders and Youth since our first campaign in late 1997/1998 that defeated a nuclear waste dump proposed to be built at Ward Valley in the Mojave Desert, on sacred land near the Colorado River. In 2022, we responded to the request for assistance from Quechan Elder Preston Arrow-weed and his grassroots group Ah Mut Pipa Foundation and helped defeat plans for a cyanide leach gold mine proposed at sacred Indian Pass. In 2023, we worked with tribal members and the Quechan Tribe to defeat the proposed Oro Cruz gold mine, also planned on sacred and traditional Quechan land.
Today we continue work with the Quechan people, including supporting their concerns about large scale lithium mining in the nearby Salton Sea, an area with sacred and cultural significance to many Indigenous people of the region. We have started a new project to collaborate with the Tribe’s Environmental Department and tribal members on a Community Air Monitoring and air quality education program that will measure particulate matter from diesel truck emissions and agricultural operations and educate tribal members about pollution and air quality issues. We have also alerted the Quechan about the danger posed by hazardous waste from California being dumped at the nearby Yuma Regional Solid Waste Landfill
See our Indigenous Lands Report (2025) for more information.