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Public Comments about Sandia National Laboratories’ Mixed Waste Landfill Five-Year Report
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...
Church Rock, America’s Forgotten Nuclear Disaster
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 responsible...
McKinley Uranium Working Group Gains/Loses County Commission Support
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...
District Court Denies Augustin Plains Ranch Application – Again!
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...
In Albuquerque, a Pollution Problem All Too Familiar to Communities of Color
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...