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...
by Janiece Jonsin | Jul 17, 2019 | News, NMELC in the News
From Tina Deines, Bitterroot Magazine: “Across the West, communities of color — four in five San Jose residents are Hispanic — suffer disproportionately from the output of polluting industries, and are more likely to live near Superfund sites and other places...
by Janiece Jonsin | Jan 31, 2019 | NMELC in the News
The Albuquerque Journal covered our victory in the Aquifer Science case. The judge’s determination that climate change impacts on future water supplies should have been considered is an important point. Douglas Meikljohn, Executive Director of the Law Center,...
