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Unplugged oil and gas wells accelerate climate change, threaten public health and risk hitting taxpayers’ pocketbooks. ProPublica and Capital & Main found that the money set aside to fix the problem falls woefully short of the impending cost.
A panel that discussed the cleanup of the LANL Chromium Plume with the Legislative Committee on Radioactive & Hazardous Materials consisted of, from left, Joni Arends, co-founder and executive director of Concerned Citizens for Nuclear, Rick Shean, director of the Environment Department's Resource Protection Division, Michael Mikolanis, manager of the DOE's Environmental Management Los Alamos…
New Mexico has chosen 10 projects to help recover from the 2015 release of waste from the Gold King Mine in Colorado. All told, the plan is to put more than $11 million towards cleanup and restoration.