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South Valley Neighborhood Appeals City’s Air Permit for Proposed Asphalt Plant
Mountain View Neighborhood Association & Mountain View Community Action Ask Air Quality Control Board to Void Permit for New Mexico Terminal Services Hot Mix Asphalt Batch Plant The Mountain View Neighborhood Association and Mountain View Community Action along...
‘This Has Got to Stop’: Indigenous Activists Decry Lingering Contamination Decades after the Last Uranium Mines Closed
By Kendra Chamberlain, New Mexico Political Report
Thursday night, a group of Indigenous community leaders gave presentations about the legacy of uranium mining in the state that still threatens the health and environment of their communities, decades after the last mines ceased operations.
LANL Tritium Venting, Middle DP Road And Consent Order Dominate NMED Community Engagement Meeting
BY MAIRE O’NEILL
maire@losalamosreporter.com
More than 100 people tuned in to a virtual community engagement meeting hosted by the New Mexico Environment Department (NMED) Thursday evening where the proposed venting of four flanged tritium waste containers at Los Alamos National Laboratory, contain at Middle DP Road and the 2016 Consent Order were the main topics addressed.
LANL Tritium Venting, Middle DP Road And Consent Order Dominate NMED Community Engagement Meeting
BY MAIRE O’NEILL maire@losalamosreporter.com More than 100 people tuned in to a virtual community engagement meeting hosted by the New Mexico Environment Department (NMED) Thursday evening where the proposed venting of four flanged tritium waste containers at Los...
Release of Radioactive Tritium a Bad Idea
Tritium is a radioactive isotope of hydrogen. It emits beta radiation, which can be very dangerous if inhaled. Like other forms of ionizing radiation, tritium can cause cancer, genetic mutations and birth defects, and assorted other adverse health effects. So it is...