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Enviro coalition defends EJ against NWMO DGR!
[Photo from We the Nuclear Free North newsletter, summer 2025] An environmental coalition — Beyond Nuclear, Coalition for a Nuclear-Free Great Lakes, Don’t Waste Michigan, and Nuclear Information and Resource Service (NIRS) — has defended Environmental Justice (EJ) against the Canadian Nuclear Waste Management Organization’s (NWMO) latest Deep Geological Repository (DGR) scheme. The coalition submitted…
Read MoreNuclear Hotseat: SCOTUS refusal to review Holtec CISF
Libbe HaLevy interviewed Beyond Nuclear’s radioactive waste specialist Kevin Kamps on January 16, 2026, regarding the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) denial of a writ of certiorari for Beyond Nuclear to challenge adverse rulings by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit regarding the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s license…
Read MoreU.S. SUPREME COURT DENIES CERT. TO BEYOND NUCLEAR RE: HOLTEC HIGHLY RADIOACTIVE WASTE DUMP LICENSE IN NEW MEXICO
[Tee shirt design by Noel Marquez, co-founder of Alliance for Environmental Strategies in southeastern New Mexico.] (*See below the press release, for a note regarding consolidated interim storage facility transport risks, sent to reporters covering Holtec’s Palisades closed reactor restart scheme in Michigan. However, such transport risks apply to every reactor in the U.S.) {The…
Read MoreCISF@SCOTUS: Reply Brief filed by deadline
[Tee shirt design by Noel Marquez, co-founder of Alliance for Environmental Strategies in southeastern New Mexico] {UPDATE: On December 15, 2025, Law360 published an article entitled “Beyond Nuclear Pushes Justices To Undo Storage License,” by Ganesh Setty, about the filing of our Reply Brief. The article is behind a paywall, so a link cannot be…
Read MoreOur Reply to Holtec on CISF SCOTUS Appeal
[Photo of the nine Justices currently comprising the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS).] {UPDATE: On December 15, 2025, Law360 published an article entitled “Beyond Nuclear Pushes Justices To Undo Storage License,” by Ganesh Setty, about the filing of our Reply Brief. The article is behind a paywall, so a link cannot be provided…
Read MoreBAS exposés on Holtec
[Tee shirt design by Noel Marquez, co-founder of Alliance for Environmental Strategies in southeastern New Mexico.] Investigative journalist Matt Smith has published two articles in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (BAS) in the past couple weeks regarding Holtec International. The first, published November 20, 2025, is entitled “How Holtec International Became an Expanding (and…
Read MoreNM-MI-UT Amici Brief to SCOTUS, in support of Beyond Nuclear’s Petition for a Writ of Certiorari
[Tee shirt design by Noel Marquez, co-founder of Alliance for Environmental Strategies in southeastern New Mexico.] On December 4, 2025, the States of New Mexico, Michigan, and Utah submitted an Amici Brief to the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS), in support of Beyond Nuclear’s Petition for a Writ of Cert. NM and MI…
Read MoreAppeal to SCOTUS against Holtec’s NM CISF license!
[Tee shirt design by Noel Marquez, co-founder of Alliance for Environmental Strategies.] NEWS FROM BEYOND NUCLEAR For immediate release Contact: Mindy Goldstein, co-counsel for Beyond Nuclear, Turner Environmental Law Clinic, (404) 727-3432, [email protected] Kevin Kamps, radioactive waste specialist, Beyond Nuclear, (240) 462-3216, [email protected] Diane Curran, co-counsel for Beyond Nuclear, Harmon Curran, (240) 393-9285, [email protected] BEYOND…
Read MoreCelebrating Major EJ Victory: Holtec-ELEA’s Cancellation of NM Nuke Dump!
[Artist’s rendition, above, of the Holtec CISF in New Mexico. Thankfully, that is where the dangerous dump scheme will remain — the realm of fiction!] NEWS FROM BEYOND NUCLEAR For immediate release, October 13, 2025 — Indigenous Peoples DayContact: Kevin Kamps, radioactive waste specialist, Beyond Nuclear, (240) 462-3216, [email protected] Beyond Nuclear Celebrates Holtec and ELEA’s…
Read MoreNuclear storage project in New Mexico terminated
[Tee shirt design by Noel Marquez, co-founder, Alliance for Environmental Strategies.] The following news outlets have reported on this story: Forbes; Carlsbad Current-Argus in southeastern New Mexico; Santa Fe New Mexican (all behind paywalls); and New Mexico Political Report (free access). Beyond Nuclear has published a press release celebrating the dump’s cancellation, and thanking allies…
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