Uranium Watch is a nonprofit project established in 2006 that educates and advocates to protect public health and the environment from past, current, and proposed impacts of uranium mining, milling, and nuclear waste disposal in Utah and the Colorado River Basin. The group monitors projects and permits, produces information for the public, and promotes citizen participation in state and federal regulatory decision-making on mining, water quality, reclamation, and related nuclear fuel‑cycle issues.
Mining regulation and permitting; uranium and nuclear waste management; water quality and aquifer protection; mine reclamation and cleanup; public health and environmental justice including Indigenous rights; oversight of state and federal regulatory agencies; transport and disposal of radioactive materials.
Primarily funded by individual donations and foundation grants and operated under the fiscal sponsorship/administration of Living Rivers (501(c)(3)).
Living Rivers (fiscal sponsor); allied environmental and public‑health organizations such as Beyond Nuclear, Center for Biological Diversity, Earthjustice, Earthworks, Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, Multicultural Alliance for a Safe Environment, New Mexico Environmental Law Center; program director Sarah M. Fields.
Non-profit (project of Living Rivers, a 501(c)(3) organization)
