Nuclear watchdogs, government accountability advocates and other critics argue that the decision skirts requirements of the National Environmental Policy Act and a decades-old court order that included a mandate for...
“NNSA’s refusal to complete programmatic environmental review before plunging ahead with plans to more than quadruple the production authorization for plutonium bomb cores flies in the face of our country’s...
Natural Resources Defense Council Nuclear Watch New Mexico Savannah River Site Watch Tri-Valley CAREs The Department of Energy’s semi-autonomous National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) has formally announced that it is...
The state of New Mexico is reconsidering its 2016 pact with the U.S. Department of Energy on how to regulate the cleanup of decades-old hazardous waste at Los Alamos National...
The Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (DOE/NNSA) has approved a final Supplement Analysis (SA) and determination on the Complex Transformation Supplement Environmental Impact Statement (SPEIS) which evaluated whether...
2018 Media NMED And EM-LA Present FY2019 Legacy Cleanup Priorities In Community Meeting Los Alamos Reporter, Dec 1, 2018, By Marie O’Neill Under public comment, Jay Coghlan, director of Nuclear...
2016 December 3, 2016, Santa Fe, NM: Nuclear Watch NM presents: Screening: Command and Control Followed by Discussion and Book-Signing – Sat. 12/3 3:30pm. Center for Contemporary Arts 1050 Old...
If the Trump plan survives legal challenges, polluters would no longer need a permit to release contaminated water into ephemeral streams and wetlands that aren’t immediately adjacent to protected waters....
The effect this could have on the state’s drinking water is illustrated most starkly at Los Alamos National Laboratory, the former Manhattan Project site that serves as a center of...
Concerns that a calcium residue might be flammable prompted officials at Los Alamos National Laboratory to curtail plutonium operations and suspend waste shipments in early November, according to a federal...
“If DOE and LANL continue to treat the public with disdain, it is going to be a long and difficult permitting process. All in all, this first meeting was disappointing...
The next director of Sandia National Laboratories has ties to both national laboratories in New Mexico. ARTICLE BY: SCOTT TURNER abqjournal.com © 2019 Albuquerque Journal James S. Peery will succeed Stephen...
Santa Fe, NM – Today, the Santa Fe New Mexican newspaper reported: “Santa Fe city leaders asked for developers’ ideas on what to do with the city-owned midtown campus…The National...
Santa Fe, NM – Today, Pope Francis called for the global abolition of nuclear weapons while paying homage to the victims of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Those two...
Santa Fe, NM – Today, the Santa Fe New Mexican newspaper reported: “Santa Fe city leaders asked for developers’ ideas on what to do with the city-owned midtown campus…The National...
Workshop on expanded production of the radioactive cores of nuclear weapons at the Los Alamos National Laboratory Presenters: Jon Lipsky, FBI agent that led the 1989 raid investigating environmental crimes...
Research has repeatedly shown that diverse teams generate the best outcomes and that the presence of women in policy discussions adds value and sustainability to policies and impact. ARTICLE BY:...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, November 24, 2019 Santa Fe, NM – Today, Pope Francis called for the global abolition of nuclear weapons while paying homage to the victims of the bombings...
Lipsky, who continues to raise concerns about the dangers of radioactive waste, will be in Santa Fe this week for a workshop organized by Nuclear Watch New Mexico, which opposes...
The environmental disaster at the nixed Rocky Flats Plant in Colorado should be a red flag to those in the CSRA, watchdogs cautioned Tuesday, as the nation’s energy and defense...
“There’s enough high-level nuclear waste awaiting disposal in the U.S. to fill a football field 65 feet (20 meters) deep. Few states want to house it within their borders.” “The...
“Placing a novel warhead design in the active nuclear weapons stockpile with a substantially untested pit is irresponsible. Rapidly increasing production at sites with spotty records compounds that error with...
About a quarter of Navajo women and some infants who were part of a federally funded study on uranium exposure had high levels of the radioactive metal in their systems,...
A ‘dirty, dirty process’ BY: KENDRA CHAMBERLAINE | nmpoliticalreport.com Los Alamos has a starring role in a shift to U.S. nuclear policy that’s two presidential terms in the making. Nuclear...
ARTICLE BY: T.S. LAST | abqjournal.com SANTA FE – The U.S. Department of Energy’s inspector general is recommending that the department seek reimbursement of up to $300,000 in DOE grant money...