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

If you haven’t already signed the electronic petition to STOP Los AlamosNational Laboratory (LANL) plans to vent large quantities of radioactive tritium into theair beginning on or after June 2 nd , 2025, there’s still time.Access the petition at actionnetwork.org/petitions/petition-to-deny-lanls-request-to-release-radioactive-tritium-into-the-air The text of the petition is also available atnuclearactive.org

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Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) plans to vent large quantities ofradioactive tritium into the air beginning on or after June 2 nd , 2025. Tritium is a form ofhydrogen that forms radioactive water in the environment. It can cross the placenta andfetuses, babies and children may receive a radiation dose about three times greaterthan adults.

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During the early days of the pandemic, on March 10, 2020, LANL mailed a noticeto people on the facility mailing list about the proposed venting of radioactive tritium intothe air from four metal containers stored at Area G. LANL’s request providedinformation about its plan to seek temporary authorization to vent from the New MexicoEnvironment Department, specifically from the Hazardous Waste Bureau.

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the bomb is a groundbreaking multimedia installation that immerses audiences inthe strange, compelling and unsettling reality of nuclear weapons. Since GeneralGroves and Robert Oppenheimer arrived in New Mexico in late 1942 to establish theManhattan Project, the danger has only increased. The world is confronted by the ninenations that possess about 12,000 nuclear weapons. And those nations aremodernizing their arsenals, including the United States at Los Alamos National

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The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) promised the People of New Mexico thatit would cleanup and dispose of its plutonium-contaminated nuclear bomb waste bydepositing it into the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) over 25 years and close. DOEbroke its promise when that deadline passed on March 26 th , 2024. But DOE has a newplan to keep the deep geologic nuclear waste disposal facility at WIPP open for 60 moreyears for legacy bomb waste and for newly-generated bomb waste from fabricating newweapons.

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The Department of Energy (DOE) promised the People of New Mexico that theywould cleanup and dispose of its plutonium-contaminated nuclear bomb wastes bydepositing waste into the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) over 25 years and close.DOE broke its promise when that deadline passed on March 26, 2024. But DOE has anew plan to keep the deep geologic nuclear waste disposal facility at WIPP open for 60more years for legacy bomb waste.

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Community members and Tribal advocates are standing together to say NO tothe proposed expansion of Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). As part of agrowing movement for environmental justice and accountability, local communityorganizations including Tewa Women United, Concerned Citizens for Nuclear Safety,Communities for Clean Water, Honor Our Pueblo Existence, and Three SistersCollective launched the 2025 SovereignTea Community Conversations series that willend with a powerful hybrid session that will center public education, dialogue, and actionaround LANL’s ongoing and proposed nuclear weapons activities.

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Community members and Tribal advocates are standing together to say NO tothe proposed expansion of Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). As part of agrowing movement for environmental justice and accountability, local communityorganizations including Tewa Women United, Concerned Citizens for Nuclear Safety,Communities for Clean Water, Honor Our Pueblo Existence, and Three SistersCollective are launching the 2025 SovereignTea Community Conversationsseries—beginning with two powerful sessions that will center public education,

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