Those who qualify for Radiation Exposure Compensation Act could receive thousands of dollars to help with medical costs.

Tina Cordova, a founder of the Tularosa Basin Downwinders Consortium, protests in support of RECA expansion on Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2024. (Danielle Prokop/Source NM) In June of 2024 during the 118th ...

Navajo uranium miners at the Rico Mine in Southwestern Colorado in 1953. Photo courtesy of The Navajo Uranium Miner Oral History and Photography Project at the Center for Southwest Research, ...

Nine months have passed since the law that compensates US victims of radiation exposure expired in June, and yet another opportunity to reinstate it fell to the wayside last week. The Radiation ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — It’s been a long time coming in the fight for to compensate more people sickened by radiation exposure in the name of national security in the U.S. No one knows that better than ...

A coalition of advocates and stakeholders called on Congress to take action in the lame-duck session to reauthorize the law compensating Americans exposed to nuclear radiation by the federal ...

For more than three decades, the federal government sought to make amends to countless Americans who developed cancer after being exposed to radiation from nuclear testing in the Southwest or while ...

ST. LOUIS — A St. Louis advocacy group is fighting misinformation as it tries to steer people in the right direction. This is happening as thousands apply for the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act, ...

U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley was able to include the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act in a major budgetary package signed by President Trump last week. It expands the number of Missouri residents who can ...

After decades of fighting, advocates for those who faced radiation exposure in Arizona and elsewhere are getting a big win through President Donald Trump’s One Big, Beautiful Bill. That push in ...