The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) promised the People of New Mexico that

it would cleanup and dispose of its plutonium-contaminated nuclear bomb waste by

depositing it into the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) over 25 years and close. DOE

broke its promise when that deadline passed on March 26 th , 2024. But DOE has a new

plan to keep the deep geologic nuclear waste disposal facility at WIPP open for 60 more

years for legacy bomb waste and for newly-generated bomb waste from fabricating new

weapons.

The Department of Energy (DOE) promised the People of New Mexico that they

would cleanup and dispose of its plutonium-contaminated nuclear bomb wastes by

depositing waste into the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) over 25 years and close.

DOE broke its promise when that deadline passed on March 26, 2024. But DOE has a

new plan to keep the deep geologic nuclear waste disposal facility at WIPP open for 60

more years for legacy bomb waste.

Community members and Tribal advocates are standing together to say NO to

the proposed expansion of Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). As part of a

growing movement for environmental justice and accountability, local community

organizations including Tewa Women United, Concerned Citizens for Nuclear Safety,

Communities for Clean Water, Honor Our Pueblo Existence, and Three Sisters

Collective launched the 2025 SovereignTea Community Conversations series that will

end with a powerful hybrid session that will center public education, dialogue, and action

around LANL’s ongoing and proposed nuclear weapons activities.

Community members and Tribal advocates are standing together to say NO to

the proposed expansion of Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). As part of a

growing movement for environmental justice and accountability, local community

organizations including Tewa Women United, Concerned Citizens for Nuclear Safety,

Communities for Clean Water, Honor Our Pueblo Existence, and Three Sisters

Collective are launching the 2025 SovereignTea Community Conversations

series—beginning with two powerful sessions that will center public education,

Public comments for the draft Site-Wide Environmental Impact Statement for

Continued Operations at Los Alamos National Laboratory are currently due on

Thursday, April 10th. Tewa Women United, Honor Our Pueblo Existence, CCNS,

Communities for Clean Water, and the Union of Concerned Scientists will host

workshops to assist you in the preparation and submission of your comments.

Comments may be submitted to [email protected]

Public comments for the draft Site-Wide Environmental Impact Statement for

Continued Operations at Los Alamos National Laboratory are currently due on

Thursday, April 10th. CCNS, Tewa Women United, Three Sisters Collective,

Communities for Clean Water and others will host two workshops to assist you in

preparing your comments.

Did you know that the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty between the U.S. and

Russia, known as the New START, expires on February 5, 2026? It’s time for the U.S.

and Russia to get back to the table to negotiate for a world without nuclear weapons!

Monday, March 3 rd begins the weeklong Third Meeting of States Parties to the

United Nations Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons at the United Nations in

New York City. Government representatives, civil society organizations, non-

governmental organizations, artists, health and justice workers and more from around

the world will gather to take stock of the progress achieved by the States Parties since

the last meeting in 2023.

On Wednesday, the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) extended

the public comment period by 30 days for the draft Site Wide Environmental Impact

Statement (SWEIS) for Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). The comment period

was extended from March 11 th to Thursday, April 10 th , 2025.

On Thursday, February 20 th , Lindsay A. Lovejoy, Jr., the attorney for Honor Our

Pueblo Existence and CCNS, will argue before the New Mexico Court of Appeals that

the non-government organizations have standing to challenge the misregulation of the

Radioactive Liquid Waste Treatment Facility, a key facility at Los Alamos National

Laboratory (LANL). The RLWTF treats liquid radioactive and hazardous waste

generated at the Plutonium Facility from the fabrication of plutonium pits, or the cores,

of nuclear weapons. Those activities are ramping up under U.S. government plans to

spend over $1 trillion dollars for new design weapons for use in a post-Cold War nuclear

arms race.