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U.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 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 MoreIUFF 2025, Las Vegas, NV
[IUFF logo design by Klee Benally] NEWS FROM BEYOND NUCLEAR For immediate releaseContact: Laura Piffero, Shoshone/Paiute (602) 391-3656 Thalia “Star” Guerrero: (435) 879-9086 Norbert Suchanek, [email protected], uraniumfilmfestival.org Media Release from Native Community Action Council P.O. Box 46301, Las Vegas, Nevada 89114 www.nativecommunityactioncouncil.org INTERNATIONAL URANIUM FILM FESTIVAL NORTH AMERICAN TOUR 2025 LAS VEGAS, NEVADA NOVEMBER 21,…
Read MoreANA gathering Nov. 21 to Oppose Resumption of Nuclear Testing
NEWS FROM BEYOND NUCLEAR For immediate releaseContact: Ian Zabarte, Secretary of the Native Community Action Council: (702) 203-8816 or [email protected] Tanvi Kardile, President of the Alliance for Nuclear Accountability: (925) 549-0910 or [email protected] ALLIANCE FOR NUCLEAR ACCOUNTABILITY (ANA) MEDIA RELEASE ANA is a national network of organizations working to address issues of nuclear weapons production…
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 Hotseat: CISFs@SCOTUS
On Nuclear Hotseat Episode #730, host Libbe HaLevy interviews Beyond Nuclear’s radioactive waste specialist, Kevin Kamps, on the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) ruling on June 18, 2025 regarding consolidated interim storage facilities (CISFs) for highly radioactive waste, targeted at Texas and New Mexico. Listen to the podcast here. Libbe describes the featured…
Read MoreVideo + updated fact sheets about EJ burden of nuke waste dumps, transport
Four-minute video about the environmental justice (EJ) aspects of high-level radioactive waste, including the fact that Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC) and low-income communities are most often the ones targeted for dump-sites (such as so-called consolidated interim storage facilities), as well as such EJ communities also burdened by highly radioactive waste’s transportation along the…
Read MoreAfter SCOTUS CISF Ruling, We’ll Pursue Appeal at D.C. Circuit Court!
[Image credit: No Nuclear Waste Aqui, Karen Hadden/SEED Coalition, and Diane D’Arrigo/NIRS; Andrews, Texas, Feb. 2017, NRC environmental scoping public comment meetings on WCS/ISP’s CISF scheme.] {June 21, 2025 Update: The following news outlets, among others, have reported on this story: Source New Mexico; AP; Courthouse News Service; Reuters; The Texas Tribune; ScienceNews; CBS News;…
Read More“To Use A Mountain” (Yucca/NTS doc film)
[Yucca Mountain and the Nevada (Nuclear Weapons) Test Site, renamed the Nevada National Security Site, are located on Western Shoshone land, as acknowledged by the 1863 “peace and friendship” Treaty of Ruby Valley, aigned by the Western Shoshone Nation and U.S. government.] News Media Contact: Media Release Brian Terrell April 10, 2025 773-853-1886…
Read MoreCISFs@SCOTUS: Fasken, Texas Submit Briefs
[Photo from NRC’s Feb. 2017 environmental scoping meeting in Andrews, TX for the ISP CISF, compliments of No Nuclear Waste Aqui.] Fasken Land & Minerals filed its Brief with the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS), by the Jan. 15 deadline. So too did the State of Texas. Our strange bedfellow allies, a fossil…
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