by Janiece Jonsin | May 16, 2020 | Letter to the Editor, NMELC in the News
By Charles de Saillan in the Santa Fe New Mexican “A ball of confusion,” the Temptations sang in 1970, “that’s what the world is today, hey, hey.” Fifty years later, amid COVID-19, those lyrics ring eerily true. On March 26, the Environmental Protection Agency added...
by Janiece Jonsin | Apr 29, 2020 | NMELC in the News
As the country reels from the spread of the novel coronavirus, federal regulators say they can’t keep up with the enforcement of environmental laws. They’re also mounting a push-back campaign against press reports and lawmakers who questioned the new policy. Last...
by Janiece Jonsin | Mar 25, 2020 | NMELC in the News
“Los Alamos National Laboratory will release radioactive vapors into the atmosphere to ventilate several barrels of tritium-tainted waste generated during the Cold War … Lab personnel will ventilate one container at a time and filter the released vapors through...
by Janiece Jonsin | Mar 2, 2020 | News, NMELC in the News
The Santa Fe New Mexican published an article on Saturday February 29 discussing how the new “waters of the United States” (WOTUS) rule could lead to less regulation of stormwater from Los Alamos National Laboratory and in Los Alamos County. Law Center...
by Janiece Jonsin | Jan 19, 2020 | News, NMELC in the News
RED WATER POND ROAD, N.M. — The village of Red Water Pond Road sits in the southeast corner of the Navajo Nation, a tiny speck in a dry valley surrounded by scrub-covered mesas. Many families have lived here for generations. The federal government wants to move them...
by Janiece Jonsin | Aug 13, 2019 | News, NMELC in the News
Early in the summer of 1979, Larry King, an underground surveyor at the United Nuclear Corporation’s Church Rock Uranium mine in New Mexico, began noticing something unusual when looking at the south side of the tailings dam. That massive earthen wall was...
