by Michael Jensen | Aug 13, 2019 | News
Sandia National Laboratories’ (“Sandia”) Five-Year Review proposes that planning and implementation for excavation and offsite disposal of radioactive and toxic chemical wastes in the Mixed Waste Landfill (MWL) is feasible and that if directed to undertake excavation...
by Michael Jensen | 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 Michael Jensen | Jul 30, 2019 | News, Press Releases
On July 30, Percy Anderson and Janene Yazzie of the McKinley County Uranium Working Group, which has been seeking County Commission support for a Blue Ribbon Task Force to study the impacts of uranium mining in the County, appeared to get support from two of the three...
by Michael Jensen | Jul 25, 2019 | News, Press Releases
In a brief Memorandum, 7thJudicial District Court Judge Matthew Reynolds granted the Motions for Summary Judgment filed by the New Mexico Environmental Law Center for approximately 80 residents of the San Agustin Plains and by the Catron County Board of County...
by Michael Jensen | 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 Michael Jensen | May 31, 2019 | News, Press Releases
Today, the Southwest Organizing Project (SWOP), New Mexico Voices for Children, New Mexico State Senator Antoinette Sedillo Lopez, New Mexico State Senator Mimi Stewart, New Mexico State Representative G. Andres Romero, and three individual residents of the impacted...
