United Nations Nuclear Weapons Ban Treaty Continues to Gather Strength
On Wednesday, September 19 th , the landmark Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons had been signed by almost half of all countries in the world after a ceremony at the United Nations General...
21 Sep 20234min
NMED Hybrid Public Meeting on Friday, September 22 nd about Changes to WIPP Operating Permit
Friday, September 22 nd will be the last opportunity to make your public comments about the changes to the operating permit for the nuclear waste dump, called the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, or WIP...
14 Sep 20234min
For LANL Cleanup, GAO Recommends a Facilitator to Improve Relationship between New Mexico Environment Department and DOE
In a July 2023 report the federal Government Accountability Office recommended that a third-party facilitator be brought in to improve the relationship and build trust between the New Mexico Environ...
6 Sep 20234min
LANL’s Toxic Hexavalent Chromium Plume Must Remain a Priority
CCNS provided the following response to a recent Santa Fe New Mexican Our View: “In response to Stop Stalling: Clean up chromium plume, no one is stalling. The plume does need immediate attention and...
31 Aug 20234min
CCNS Urges State Legislature to Protect the Española Aquifer from LANL Pollutants
Did you know that in 2008 the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) designated the 3,000 square mile Española Basin System as a Sole Source Drinking Water Aquifer? One ongoing concern is that Los Alam...
24 Aug 20234min
Join the Continuation of Dr. King’s Work at 60 th Anniversary of March on Washington in Albuquerque on Saturday, August 26 th
On August 28, 1963, more than 200,000 peaceful demonstrators from across the United States of America joined together for the first March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. They came together to dema...
17 Aug 20234min
Medical Journals Issue Urgent Call for Elimination of Nuclear Weapons
More than 100 medical journals, including the Lancet, the British Medical Journal, the New England Journal of Medicine, and the JAMA, have issued a joint call for urgent steps to decrease the growing ...
9 Aug 20234min
Hiroshima and Nagasaki Commemorative Events: The Forgotten Bomb Documentary, Inaugural Albu(r)querque Peace Festival and Gathering at Ashley Pond
Near the end of World War II, on August 6 th , 1945, the United States dropped a uranium atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. Three days later, the United States dropped a plutonium atomic bomb on Nagasak...
2 Aug 20234min
