Holtec Abandons Proposal to Store the Nation’s High Level Nuclear Waste in New Mexico
Holtec has announced that it would no longer pursue its proposal to store the nation's high-level nuclear waste in New Mexico ...
Responding to the Supreme Court Decision Allowing Storage of High Level Nuclear Waste in New Mexico
Today (June 18, 2025) the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that New Mexico and Texas, and groups like the Sierra Club, did not have the right to challenge Nuclear Regulatory Commission licenses for “interim” high-level nuclear waste storage facilities in their respective states. The NRC denied intervention for these entities in the licensing process and therefore the court claimed that the states did not have the right to challenge the license ...
NM communities respond to NRC license for Holtec
For immediate release: May 9, 2023 Despite New Mexico’s recent passage of a law prohibiting the storage of high-level nuclear waste here, the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission on Tuesday issued a license to Holtec International to store the entirety of the nation’s high-level nuclear waste in our state. In response, community leaders and experts issued the following statements: New Mexico Commissioner of Public Lands Stephanie Garcia Richard: “This is a bad idea, full stop. Placing a nuclear storage facility in ...
SB53: Banning Storage of High-Level Nuclear Waste
SB53 bans the storage or disposal of high-level nuclear waste in New Mexico under most circumstances. It passed the House on March 17, the last full day of the session, and was signed by the governor the same night! Congratulations and thank you to everyone who called your representatives and senators to encourage passage of this important law! ...
New Mexico Can Act to Prevent Ill-Advised Profit Scheme
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is scheduled in early 2023 to grant Holtec International a license to ‘temporarily’ store high-level nuclear waste near Carlsbad. Federal law requires a permanent disposal site to be identified before any interim site is established, but no such site has been identified. We need state legislation to prevent this from happening ...
Opposed by Texas, border nuke site still gets NRC permit
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has approved the WCS/ISP high-level “temporary” storage for used fuel rods from commercial nuclear reactors. These fuel cores remain extremely radioactive for a million years, despite objections from both Texas and New Mexico governors. This site is 5 miles from Eunice, NM, the largest nearby city ...
About 20% of US electricity comes from nuclear power. The NRC wants to dump the nuclear waste from these plants in New Mexico and Texas, shipped over underfunded rail routes ...
What it’s like to live in an industry sacrifice zone
Some people call it economic diversity for Lea County, N.M. I recall the days when I would see a calm and dry desert scene common in this area, with cows and the occasional coyote or rabbit. Now I see red blinking lights and industrial activity ...
The public has until July 22 to tell the NRC to stop the poorly-conceived Holtec 'temporary' nuclear waste storage facility in Lea County ...
NRC panel rejects all objections to proposed NM nuclear dump
On May 7, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission announced that its Atomic Safety and Licensing Board had rejected every objection made by intervenors challenging Holtec International’s application to build a storage facility for high-level nuclear waste in southeast New Mexico ...
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