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Nuclear waste permit being modified. How much will it cost?

Attendees at the meeting wanted to know how the federal government financially justified the changes.

WIPP Celebrates 25th Anniversary Of First Transuranic Nuclear Waste Receipt

As DOE works on WIPP permit modification, public demands better transparency

It's been a decade since the radiological release at WIPP. Here's what has happened since then.

A ruptured drum of nuclear waste released radiation into the air in February 2014. Ten years later, debate rages on if the site has recovered.

Aging infrastructure could pose risks at Waste Isolation Pilot Plant nuclear waste site

Aging infrastructure could pose risks at Waste Isolation Pilot Plant nuclear waste site.

The WIPP facility near Carlsbad will mine new space to dispose of nuclear waste

Federal officials said they began mining a new space where nuclear waste will be buried underground. Critics feared further expansion.

THURS: New lawsuits accuse FEMA of blowing deadlines for northern New Mexico wildfire victims, + More

Advocacy group says BLM has favored oil and gas over an endangered bird species

Nearly every time that oil and gas operators have applied for exemptions measures aimed at protecting the endangered lesser prairie chicken, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management’s Carlsbad Field Office has granted those requests, according to information gathered by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility. The lesser prairie chicken faces a variety of threats, including habitat

More than 400 shipments of nuclear waste came to Carlsbad-area repository in 2023

WIPP received 423 shipments in 2023, as of Thursday according to the latest DOE data, with 334 or 78 percent coming from Idaho National Laboratory.

Industry leaders call for economic diversity as New Mexico gets more reliant on oil money

New Mexico is the second-highest producer of crude oil in the U.S., after only Texas with which the state shares the Permian Basin.