There Are 91.4 Billion Things Other Than Nuclear Weapons that Money Could Buy
Nuclear weapons programs divert public funds from health care, education, disaster relief and other vital humanitarian services. The nuclear- armed countries spent over $91.4 billion [dollars] on thei...
20 Jun 20244min
Daniel Ellsberg Week June 10 th through the 16 th – A week of education and action to honor peacemaking and whistleblowing
Daniel Ellsberg was a nuclear war planner – his plans are still in use today in the United States. He has provided a stark warning about the dangers of nuclear weapons and above all the intercontinent...
13 Jun 20243min
Los Alamos Power Pool Planning for Two New Electrical Lines
It was announced at the June 5 th Los Alamos County Board of Public Utilities meeting that there are two proposals to bring approximately 50 or more megawatts of solar electricity to the County and Lo...
6 Jun 20244min
Searchlight Journalist Receives 2024 MOLLY Award for Story on Trucheña Whose Plutonium Count Was New Mexico’s Highest
The Austin newspaper, the Texas Observer, chose Searchlight reporter Alicia Inez Guzmán, to receive its 2024 MOLLY Prize on May 30 th . Guzmán holds a Ph.D. in Visual and Cultural Studies from the Uni...
30 Mai 20244min
DNFSB Still Concerned about Flaws in Emergency Air Monitoring at WIPP
Just as there were problems encountered with air monitoring during the February 14, 2014 explosion and release at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP), a nuclear bomb waste dump, the Defense Nuclear...
23 Mai 20244min
DOE Seeks EPA Permission to Operate Panels 11 and 12 in the WIPP Underground
On March 12 th , the Department of Energy (DOE) submitted its Planned Change Request to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to use new Panels 11 and 12 in the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) ...
16 Mai 20244min
Defend New Mexico Water from Fracking Waste Contamination by Proposed Wastewater Reuse Rule
Beginning on Monday, May 13 th , at an in-person and virtual public hearing in Santa Fe, the New Mexico Environment Department will present its proposal to vastly expand the reuse of produced water fr...
9 Mai 20244min
Public Comments Needed to Ban Open Burning and Open Detonation of PFAS, Toxic and Carcinogenic Explosive Materials
Did you know the federal Departments of Defense and Energy, NASA and the private industry sector currently operate more than 60 open burn pits across the U.S. and its territories – causing the uncontr...
2 Mai 20244min
