TX & NM NUKE WASTE DUMPS: What's next? What can you do?

As reported last week, public comments finished strong on NRC's Draft Environmental Impact Statement for Interim Storage Partners' (ISP) highly radioactive waste Consolidated Interim Storage Facility (CISF) at Waste Control Specialists, Texas. Opponents submitted more than 9,000 comments, including ours. A coalition of 129 environmental organizations also spoke out, as did opponents, by a 10-to-1 ratio, during verbal call-in sessions.

What’s next? Opponents' appeals against the Holtec CISF targeting New Mexico have been held in abeyance by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, until all NRC licensing proceedings conclude. What can you do? Contact your U.S. Rep., and both Senators; urge they block any bill authorizing CISFs during the lame duck.