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Concerned about Project Ranger? Join State Emergency Response Commission Virtual Meeting on Thursday, October 22nd

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Navy Ordered 444 Missiles, 80% of Work to be Done in Rio Rancho, Including Static Weapons Testing

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Peace Week: Outer Space as a Global Commons

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New Billboard Urges Active Duty Military to Refuse Unlawful Orders

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Michiganders Oppose Proposed LANL Data Center at the University of Michigan in Ypsilanti Township

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Widespread Fraud Lawsuit Settled for Former Hunters Point Naval Shipyard Whistleblowers

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Since Pits are “Aging Slowly,” Is Expanded Plutonium Pit Production Needed?

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DOE and Los Alamos County Approve 10-Year Electric Coordination Agreement

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DOE Again Denies DNFSB Access to Nuclear Weapons Facilities; Contact Your Elected Officials

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Public Comments about NRC’s Rollback of Radiation Exposure Standards due on Monday, August 31st

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Join the Nagasaki Commemoration on Sunday, August 9th and the Fire on the Mountain Billboard Unveiling on Tuesday, August 11th

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Roger Snodgrass Memorial on Saturday, August 1st in Albuquerque

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NMED Secretary James C. Kenney Speaks about LANL Cleanup and WIPP at Fourth Annual Interfaith Vigil

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This Weekend: Commemorate the Church Rock Uranium Mill Tailings Spill and the Trinity Test, Plus Other Upcoming Events

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PEIS Lawyer Requests Three Essential Documents and an Extension of Time for Public Review and Comment

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Submit Your PEIS Comments and Commemorate the Church Rock Uranium Mill Tailings Spill and the Trinity Test

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DOE Strongly Opposes NMED’s Proposal to Get Waste Off the Hill in Los Alamos: What Now?

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Support New Mexico Environment Department’s Proposal to Get Waste Off the Hill in Los Alamos; Your Comments due on Monday, June 22nd

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New Mexico Tribal, Federal and Local Leaders Support Bill to Protect Caja del Rio Plateau

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“St. Petersburg vs. the Golden Dome: A 150-year-old warning we are ignoring”

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Take Action TODAY to Support LANL Cleanup; Submit Your Comments by Monday, June 8th

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Newly Released Tritium Review Analyzes LANL Tritium Reports, Highlights Infant Doses

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New Mexico Takes Action to Support Clean-up at LANL; Submit Your Comments by Monday, June 8th

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Sample Comment Letter on draft Plutonium Pit Production Programmatic Environment Impact Statement – Public Hearing Thursday, May 14th in Santa Fe

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Remembering Chornobyl at 40; The Harm Continues

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May 14th Public Hearing about the Draft Plutonium Pit Production Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement in Santa Fe; What About Sandia?

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Two Actions to Take – Protest the New Mexico Nuclear Alliance Conference and Tell DOE NNSA to Reopen Public Input on LANL Expansion

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EPA Provides Public Review Period for Final LANL SWEIS and ROD

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Public Comments Needed on Final LANL SWEIS Record of Decision

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Final LANL SWEIS Released; Draft Nationwide Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement for Plutonium Pit Production to Follow

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LANL Responds to New Mexico Environment Department Administrative Compliance Orders – Requests Public Hearings

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NGOs Apply for Appropriations Funding to Protect Communities from LANL’s Migrating Hexavalent Chromium Plume

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The US/Israeli Bombing of Iran: A Case Study in Contempt for International Law

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Public Comment Period for Project Jupiter’s Proposed Microgrid Air Quality Construction Permits Must be Extended

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NMED Holds LANL Accountable for Hexavalent Chromium Plume

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NMED Takes Necessary Action on LANL’s Hexavalent Chromium Plume

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Stop House Bill 207 – Keep Oil and Gas Waste Out of New Mexico Waters

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URGENT! Contact U.S. Republican Senators to Ask Trump to Save the New START Treaty

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Save New START Before it Expires on February 4 th - Check Out the Advocacy Toolkit at Defuse Nuclear War.org

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Celebrating Five Years of the Nuclear Weapons Ban Treaty

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No New Arms Race: Save New START Before it Expires on February 4 th - Check Out the Advocacy Toolkit at Defuse Nuclear War.org

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CCNS Nuclear Literacy Program to Educate Nuevomexicano Communities on the LANL Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement for Plutonium Pit Production

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2025 Highlights and What is in Store for 2026

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Less Than 50 Days Before New START Treaty Expires! Contact Your Congressional Members to Stop A New U.S. – Russia Arms Race

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Putin Proposed to Extend New START Treaty for One Year; Trump Has Not Formerly Responded

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Resumption of Nuclear-Explosive Testing: A Dangerous Path -- Editorial by Dr. John Burroughs

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NMED Requires LANL to Stop All Injection Operations into Regional Drinking Water Aquifer

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Los Alamos Warns the West Mesa: Stop the Next Perchlorate and Chromium Crisis

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LANL Reneges on Active Confinement Ventilation Systems at PF-4

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Trump’s Threat to Resume Nuclear Testing

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Action You Can Take NOW to Stop Nuclear Weapons Testing

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LANL Declares Tritium Venting Success — Communities Demand Disclosure as Operation Raises More Questions Than Answers

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Ban Uranium Weapons Activist Damacio Lopez Receives Honorary Lifetime Achievement Award

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New Article about “Participatory Democracy in Action” Describes WIPP Permit Negotiations

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Global Majority of State Parties Now Signed onto the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons

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Call to Action: Short Time for U.S. Senate to Protect the DNFSB; Contact Your Senators Today

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New Mexicans Can Save the DNFSB; Contact Our Senators Today

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Friday, September 26 th is the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons

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Spreading the Word about WIPP at the 115 th Annual Bean Day in Wagon Mound

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New Mexico Environment Department Must Reject LANL’s Request for Temporary Authorization to Vent Tritium

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LANL Silences Public and Tribal Voices While Pushing Radioactive Tritium Venting

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DOE and NNSA Declare No Significant Impact from the Proposed LANL Electrical Power Capacity Upgrade Project

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We Cannot Stop Future Hiroshimas if We’ve Allowed Today’s Gazas to Burn

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Alarming Problems with Proposed Tritium Venting at LANL

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Join Us on Saturday, August 9th for Nagasaki Commemoration Events in Los Alamos

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46th Church Rock Uranium Tailings Spill Commemoration on Saturday, July 19th

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Tell DOE No to Expanded Plutonium Pit Production at LANL and Savannah River Site – Comments due Monday, July 14th

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Coming Next Week: Nuclear Weapons Educational Events

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Plans to Commemorate Two New Mexico Atomic Events

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State Attorneys General Push Back on Trump’s Attempts to Gut Environmental Justice

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New Mexico Environment Department Secretary Kenney Pauses Proposed Tritium Venting by LANL for Now

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No Tritium Venting from LANL this Week

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New Union of Concerned Scientists Report - Plutonium Pit Production: The Risks and Costs of U.S. Plans to Build New Nuclear Weapons

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TODAY! VIRTUAL WORKSHOP ABOUT DOE’S PLANS FOR EXPANDED PLUTONIUM PIT PRODUCTION AT LANL FOR THE NEXT 50 YEARS – PUBLIC MEETINGS NEXT WEEK

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Still Time to Act: Sign Petition to Stop LANL Plans to Vent Radioactive Tritium, Virtual Scoping Meetings for Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement for Plutonium Pit Production on May 27 and 28

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Sign Electronic Petition to Halt LANL Plans to Vent Radioactive Tritium in Early June

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LANL Plans to Begin Venting Large Quantities of Radioactive Tritium On or After June 2 nd

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the bomb, a two-day public symposium at UNM April 30th and May 1st

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Second Annual WIPP Plutonium Trail Caravan on Saturday, April 26 th

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Saturday, April 26 th Second Annual WIPP Plutonium Trail Caravan from Santa Fe to Las Vegas, New Mexico

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Local Communities Say NO to LANL Expansion; Public Comments Due on Thursday, April 10th

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Local Communities Say NO to LANL Expansion and Host Community Comment Writing Workshops

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Three Draft LANL SWEIS Public Comment Preparation Workshops

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Two Upcoming LANL SWEIS Public Comment Preparation Workshops

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Tell Congress to Support Arms Control and Talks with Russia and China

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Watch Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons Proceedings on UN-TV Next Week

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Public Comment Period for draft LANL SWEIS Extended to April 10

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CCNS and HOPE Argue Standing to Challenge a LANL Water Permit Before New Mexico Court of Appeals

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WQCC Denied CCNS and HOPE Standing to Challenge LANL’s RLWTF - Next Step is Oral Argument Before New Mexico Court of Appeals

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Nuclear Watch New Mexico Presents a Virtual Workshop about draft LANL SWEIS on February 6th

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Tools You Can Use to Prepare for draft LANL SWEIS Public Hearings

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US Forest Service Authority and Oversight Limited to Address LANL Electric Power Capacity Upgrade Project

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Draft LANL Site-Wide Environmental Impact Statement to be Released on Friday, January 10th

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WIPP’s Legacy Transuranic Waste Disposal Plan Demonstrates DOE’s Broken Promises; Get Your Comments in by Friday, January 3 rd , 2025

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WIPP’s Legacy Transuranic Waste Disposal Plan is Inadequate; Submit Your Comments by Friday, January 3 rd , 2025

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Comments due about WIPP’s Legacy Transuranic Waste Disposal Plan by Friday, January 3 rd , 2025

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More Voices in Support of Designating the Caja del Rio as a National Monument

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Japanese NGO Nihon Hidankyo to Receive Nobel Peace Prize

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After a Four-Year Journey LANL May Not Need to Vent Four Flanged Waste Tritium Containers

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Call to Action! Stop LANL Tritium Venting and Protect the Most Vulnerable