New Mexico sues US over proposed nuclear waste storage plans

Tee shirt design by Noel Marquez, used with permission. The square shape is in the form of NM's map perimeter.As reported by the Associated Press.

Courthouse News Service has also reported on this story, with a link to the State of New Mexico lawsuit.

Additional coverage: PowerMag; Bloomberg Law (behind pay wall); PBS; the Carlsbad Current Argus (behind pay wall); The Hill; The Sandpaper; Nuclear Intelligence Weekly (behind pay wall); and The Center Square -- New Mexico.

See the New Mexico Attorney General's press release, here (it is followed by the lawsuit itself).

Haaland confirmed by Senate as first Native American to lead Interior

As reported by the Washington Post.

Deb Haaland, who has served as a Democratic U.S. Rep. from northern New Mexico since Jan., 2019 (one of two Native American women elected that congressional cycle, the first in U.S. history), has been outspoken against the Holtec International high-level radioactive waste consolidated interim storage facility targeted at southeastern New Mexico. She is from Laguna Pueblo, in northwest New Mexico, site of the world's largest open pit uranium mine (till recently surpassed in size by Olympic Dam, Australia, located on Aboriginal land), with significant health impacts on her community for the past many decades.

The New York Times has also reported on this story.

Update on March 17, 2021 by admin

See Karl Grossman and Harvey Wasserman's March 3rd article in Truthout, about other Biden Cabinet members' unfortunate and inappropriate pro-nuclear advocacy.