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Michael Benanav / Searchlight New Mexico and is republished here by permission. For most New Mexico businesses, the arrival of COVID-19 wreaked havoc, caused shutdowns or threatened doom. But for one enterprise — potentially one of the world’s largest nuclear waste sites — the pandemic offered an unusual opportunity. A long-planned nuclear waste storage facility in the southeastern New Mexico desert was rushed through the approval process during the pandemic, according to New Mexico’s ...

Nuclear Rubberstamping Commission rushes to approve Holtec’s New Mexico nuclear waste plan Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has categorically denounced the Holtec project and all other proposals to store nuclear waste in the area. there are “no plans of ever removing” the waste. “We see no reason,” they said, “to rush a decision that affects generations of New Mexicans during a pandemic on behalf of an international, for-profit corporation.” New Mexico’s nuclear rush,  A m...

This article was reported in collaboration with the Institute of American Indian Arts’ journalism program. For most New Mexico businesses, the arrival of COVID-19 wreaked havoc, caused shutdowns or threatened doom. But for one enterprise — potentially one of the world’s largest nuclear waste sites — the pandemic offered an unusual opportunity.  A long-planned nuclear waste storage facility in the southeastern New Mexico desert was rushed through the approval process during the pandemic...

In December 2020, Indigenous advocates and allies from around the world joined a virtual town hall on the last operating conventional uranium mill in the United States. The White Mesa uranium mill sits on the doorstep of Utah’s Bears Ears National Monument, just a few miles up the road from the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe’s White Mesa community, and has been flying under the radar as a de facto dumping ground for low-level radioactive waste for decades.   The town hall, called “Indigenous Pe...