We’ve been through this once before. In 2020, we organized a campaign to stop the planned release of tritium from Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). Our Beloved Community came through then, with more than 3100 signatures to our petition to the Department of Energy (DOE)…
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ISSUE: Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) plans to expand their facilities for plutonium pit production — to increase the nation’s stockpile of nuclear weapons to 30 pits a year by 2026. It appears that this expanded pit production will not be included in the new Sitewide Environmental Impact Statement…
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On March 11, the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) sent the federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) a formal notice that the Lab will intentionally release up to some 100,000 curies of tritium, a radioactive isotope of hydrogen gas, beginning April 17, 2020.
This massive radioactive venting is due to take place as northern New Mexico begins to grapple with the COVID-19 pandemic, and places a further burden on some of our most vulnerable and at-risk communities. At the same time DOE is ramping up nuclear weapons production and plans to cut cleanup at LANL nearly in half.
We are asking for your help to call on our Congressional delegation, the EPA, and New Mexico Environment Department (NMED) directors to put an immediate halt and suspension to these planned tritium releases and increase in LANL plutonium pit production.
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OUR VIEWby Marian Naranjo (Honor Our Pueblo Existence) and Kathy Sanchez (Tewa Women United Circle of Grandmothers/Wisdom Keepers) On Monday, July 22, 2024, top officials from the Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration and Office of Environmental Management will host a town hall on cleanup priorities at Buffalo Thunder…
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This SovereignTea education session, hosted by our Environmental Justice Program, will discuss the environmental and health impacts of the proposed plutonium pit production coming from the nuclear industry complex. For this event, guests from the Union of Concerned Scientists will be educating the community with their expertise. Dylan Spaulding will present “A primer…
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In these challenging times, please remember that every seed contains the element of radical hope. Our work at Tewa Women United is very much about nurturing and sharing seeds – in every sense of the word. You can find our staff working with youth and elders to stock our Española…
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This week, “Oppenheimer” will open, a film that centers the creation and use of the atomic bomb through the story of J. Robert Oppenheimer. Go see the movie if it calls to you. But please also take time to learn about the other side of the story and what…
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Your comments are needed for New Mexico's Triennial Review! Last day to submit comments: Wednesday, July 21.
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"We know that the environmental violence our land-based and Native Peoples, ecologies and waters continue to endure from nuclear contamination will not end until the harm stops."
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This has truly been a year like no other. Since the beginning of the COVID pandemic in March, Tewa Women United staff have worked hard to find creative solutions to respond to the needs of our communities throughout the Tewa homelands and Rio Arriba County. Our activities maintained connections and…
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