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Around the tubes
Some links for a newly sunny Wednesday afternoon: one of the most remarkable historical moments I’ve ever encountered – the transcript of the phone conversation between J. Robert Oppenheimer and… Read more
Los Alamos manager’s performance on plutonium project criticized
The contractor team that managers Los Alamos National Laboratory for the federal government did a poor job of managing the Chemistry and Metallurgy Research Replacement Nuclear Facility, a proposed plutonium… Read more
State engineer denies application to pump groundwater from Datil to the Rio Grande
updated with a statement from Verhines: State Engineer Scott Verhines, New Mexico’s top water official, has turned down a proposal by a private company to pump groundwater from a basin… Read more
Around the tubes
Some reading for a Friday: GOP’s claims about Obama puzzle environmentalists Intelligence report suggests water at the core of future global tensions Science journalist Charles Seife shows admirable restraint in… Read more
Drilling and gas prices
As President Obama prepares to visit New Mexico to highlight rising oil and gas production in this country, Seth Borenstein and Jack Gillum at the AP have done an interesting… Read more
Close the labs?
My colleague Win Quigley had a fascinating column this morning engaging in a though experiment: would New Mexico’s economy benefit if the federal government simply closed Sandia and Los Alamos?… Read more
Around the tubes
Some reading for a windblown Sunday…. Kate Galbraith has an excellent piece in the New York Times (via the Texas Tribune) about groundwater pumping in Texas and “the rule of… Read more
More evidence it’ll be tough for ponderosa to return after last year’s fires
A group of Flagstaff researchers have a new study out looking at post-fire recovery of ponderosa forest in the southwest, and the news isn’t particularly good. In interviews after last… Read more
Tough road ahead for nuclear cleanup budget
One of the things we’re watching closely for you is the trajectory of the Los Alamos National Laboratory cleanup budget. New Mexico Environment Secretary David Martin and a coalition of… Read more
Young: analysis of nuke cuts reasonable
Understanding the connection between the size of the U.S. nuclear arsenal and the workload at our nuclear weapons labs to maintain the bombs and warheads is non-trivial. It would be… Read more
More Republican push-back against slowing growth of nuclear weapons budget
We’re seeing more push-back from Congressional Republicans against the Obama administration’s proposed budget for the U.S. nuclear weapons budget. The proposal, rolled out in February, calls for an increase in… Read more
A bit more on our optimistic water news
Michael Cohen of the Pacific Institute, who’s done a lot of work on municipal water consumption and conservation in the western United States, had an interesting followup comment in an… Read more
