TX & NM NUKE WASTE DUMPS: What can you do to defend EJ?
November 19, 2020
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Now that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission Draft Environmental Impact Statement public comment periods have concluded on the environmentally unjust commercial irradiated nuclear fuel consolidated interim storage facilities (CISFs) targeting the NM/TX borderlands, what can you do? Contact your U.S. Rep., and both Senators. Urge they block any bill authorizing and/or funding CISFs during the lame duck session of Congress, including both House and Senate Energy and Water Appropriations bills (H.R. 7613 and S. 0000, Sec. 306). To learn more about dangerously bad radioactive waste legislation, watch the Nov. 13 EESI/Clearwater congressional briefing, with expert opponents to the CISFs, from NIRS, Southwest Research and Information Center, and Institute for Policy Studies.
Article originally appeared on Beyond Nuclear (https://archive.beyondnuclear.org/).
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