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What happens next for “old CMR”
Los Alamos National Laboratory is in the midst of a 60-day analysis of how it will go about getting the lab’s plutonium work done now that the Obama administration has… Read more
Albuquerque meets water conservation goal early
Albuquerque water users consumed 149.55 gallons per person per day, according to a report filed earlier this month with the state. The numbers here are complicated by new census population… Read more
New Mexico’s cool February was a US outlier
It was a warm February in the United States, except here. From Andrew Freedman’s summary of the month that was (or, as he puts it, the winter that wasn’t): Winter… Read more
Turner pushes back against CMRR cut
Rep. Mike Turner, R-Ohio, today (Thurs. 3/8/12) pushed back against the Obama administration’s proposal to indefinitely defer work on the Chemistry and Metallurgy Research Replacement Nuclear Facility (CMRR-NF) at Los… Read more
State officials push for Los Alamos, WIPP funding
A group of New Mexicans, led by state Environment Secretary David Martin, is just back from a trip to DC to lobby for more money for operations at the Waste… Read more
A lingering La Niña and a lousy NM runoff forecast
Today’s monthly federal La Niña outlook shows our drought-bringer fading, but the latest from the streamflow forecast team suggests it’s probably not soon enough. On the La Niña front, forecasters… Read more
Southern NM Snowpack Disappearing Fast
The water left by a series of December and January storms in southern New Mexico is disappearing fast, and the available evidence suggests its blowing away in dry winds (a… Read more
Bingaman Introduces Clean Energy Standard Legislation for Utilities
Sen. Jeff Bingaman on Thursday launched one last legislative push to require utilities to generate more of their power from clean energy sources. Bingaman, a New Mexico Democrat who chairs… Read more
Where the Los Alamos Cuts are Coming From
In assembling background material for a piece to run next Tuesday on the problems at Los Alamos National Laboratory, I asked for a breakout of the roughly $300 million reduction… Read more
Administration requests $1.5 million for Price’s Dairy refuge
The Obama administration’s fiscal year 2013 budget request includes $1.5 million for acquisition of the first 100 acres of property for the Price’s Dairy wildlife refuge in Bernalillo County’s far… Read more
Los Alamos bracing
Among the many loose ends left hanging in this week’s discussions of the U.S. nuclear weapons budget is the programmatic impact of shutting down work on the Chemistry and Metallurgy… Read more
National Academies: Labs-NNSA relationship “dysfunctional”
A new report out this morning (Wed. 2/15/2012) from a National Academies panel studying the National Nuclear Security Administration’s management of its weapons labs describes the relationship as “dysfunctional”. The… Read more
