A group of local leaders touted New Mexico’s work towards addressing climate change during a recent webinar on public health and climate change. But speakers such as Speaker of the House Brian Egolf, a Santa Fe Democrat, and New Mexico Department of Health (DOH) Sec. Kathyleen Kunkel tip-toed around the state’s recent...Speakers tout NM’s climate leadership, but are quiet on oil, gas production
A group of local leaders touted New Mexico’s work towards addressing climate change during a recent webinar on public health and climate change. But speakers such as Speaker of the House Brian Egolf, a Santa Fe Democrat, and New Mexico Department of Health (DOH) Sec. Kathyleen Kunkel tip-toed around the state’s recent...Release of radioactive isotope could start this month
Whistleblower’s grievance reveals LANL tritium release over legal limitSANTA FE —The New Mexico Environmental Law Center and Nuclear Watch New Mexico notified the Environmental Protection Agency Aug. 28 that its rubber stamping of plans by the Department of Energy and the Los Alamos National Laboratory to vent up to 114,000 curies of radioactive gaseous tritium is unacceptable.
The two organizations stated:
“We believe that EPA and DOE, as federal agencies mandated to serve and protect the public, need to entirely reconsider their decision to allow this tritium venting project to move forward. The venting project has been poorly thought out; it would put an inestimable number...
Earthweek: Diary of a Changing World
Week ending Friday, September 4, 2020Wounded Ice
This summer’s record heat around icy areas of the Northern Hemisphere has left a “deep wound” in the planet’s cryosphere, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) says.
It said the damage to the icy landscape came amid record Arctic heat, dwindling polar sea ice and the fracturing of what had been Canada’s last fully intact ice shelf.
WMO spokeswoman Clare Nullis called the Arctic heating at twice the global warming average a “vicious circle” that influences warming elsewhere.
“The rapid decline of sea ice in turn contributes to more warming, and so the circle goes on and the consequences do not stay in the...
Relay for Life is transformed into a new event
COVID-19 pushes cancer activists to create new fundraiserLast year’s Relay For Life has been transformed into a Luminaria Lights of Hope & Love Evening by volunteers working to raise money for the American Cancer Society – Cancer Action Network).
Due to changes caused by COVID-19, the 2020 version of the Relay For Life will be held Sept. 12 from 8 pm-9:30 pm with the luminarias for the relay set up on the 400 block of Logan (in the space of the former Roosevelt Elementary School).
People can drive by and purchase a bag from their car or make a donation.
Last year, on June 19 the Relay For Life 20th Anniversary was celebrated at Courthouse Square, under the banner, “We’re...
Operation Crystal Shield
Methamphetamine seized before reaching New MexicoWASHINGTON –Attorney General William P. Barr and Drug Enforcement Administration Acting Administrator Timothy J. Shea announced the results of Operation Crystal Shield, DEA’s six-month-long effort targeting the command and control elements of Mexican cartels that operate major methamphetamine “transportation hubs” in the United States.
At a press conference Sept. 10 in Phoenix, Ariz., Barr and Shea announced that in just six months, Operation Crystal Shield generated a total of more than 750 investigations, resulting in nearly 1,840 arrests and the seizure of more than 28,560 pounds of methamphetamine, $43.3 million in drug...
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