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00:04:25

Stop House Bill 207 – Keep Oil and Gas Waste Out of...

CCNS Update ·

2026/02/05

Last week, Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham issued a legislative message forHouse Bill 207, which calls for the discharge of “produced water” to New Mexico’srivers, streams and groundwater. Produced water is a highly toxic waste byproduct ofoil and gas operations. No treatment technologies currently exist that might allow for thesafe discharge of produced water to water resources.

00:04:18

URGENT! Contact U.S. Republican Senators to Ask Trump...

CCNS Update ·

2026/01/29

We have just a few days to ensure the last remaining arms control treatybetween the United States and Russia continues with its numerical cap of 1,550deployed strategic nuclear weapons for each country. The New START treaty is set toexpire after Wednesday, February 4 th . Please contact Republican U.S. Senators.Request that President Trump respond to President Putin’s proposal to informallyextend the treaty for one year.

00:04:08

Save New START Before it Expires on February 4 th -...

CCNS Update ·

2026/01/22

The last remaining arms control treaty between the United States and Russia willexpire on Wednesday, February 4 th . Without this treaty, there will be nothing stopping anew, dangerous and wasteful nuclear arms race. Now is the time to demand that bothcountries agree to Save New START.

00:04:15

Celebrating Five Years of the Nuclear Weapons Ban Treaty

CCNS Update ·

2026/01/15

On Thursday, January 22 th , the world and New Mexicans will mark five yearssince the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons became international law.Nuclear weapons are now illegal.

00:04:15

No New Arms Race: Save New START Before it Expires on...

CCNS Update ·

2026/01/08

00:04:25

CCNS Nuclear Literacy Program to Educate...

CCNS Update ·

2026/01/01

For over eighty years, the People of New Mexico have borne the burden of the1943 establishment of Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). Through theCongressional continuing resolution process, LANL may receive an additional $1 billiondollars to support expansion of the number of plutonium triggers, or plutonium pits,fabricated for nuclear weapons. The people of northern New Mexico are unaware of theeffects that this potentially may have on nearby communities. The effects of eightdecades of nuclear

00:04:16

2025 Highlights and What is in Store for 2026

CCNS Update ·

2025/12/25

Please allow us to state the obvious: 2025 has been a busy year in terms ofaddressing proposals for MORE to support the growing nuclear weapons complex inNew Mexico. From Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) to the Waste Isolation PilotPlant (WIPP), the Department of Energy and National Nuclear Security Administrationhave big plans. Specifically, we’ll continue to oppose them.

00:04:17

Less Than 50 Days Before New START Treaty Expires!...

CCNS Update ·

2025/12/18

The New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, or the New START Agreement, is setto expire on Thursday, February 5 th , 2026 – in less than 50 days. The New STARTAgreement is the last remaining nuclear arms control treaty between the United Statesand the Russian Federation.

00:04:12

Putin Proposed to Extend New START Treaty for One...

CCNS Update ·

2025/12/11

The New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, or New START, is set to expire onThursday, February 5 th , 2026. In late September, President Putin proposed to extendthe treaty for one year. President Trump has yet to formerly respond. On October 5th,he said, “[It] sounds like a good idea to me.”

00:03:55

Resumption of Nuclear-Explosive Testing: A Dangerous...

CCNS Update ·

2025/12/04

In a Truth Social post that reverberated around the world, on October 29President Donald Trump wrote: “Because of other countries’ testing programs,I have instructed the Department of War to start testing our Nuclear Weaponson an equal basis.”

00:04:29

NMED Requires LANL to Stop All Injection Operations...

CCNS Update ·

2025/11/25

In a protective move, on Friday, November 18th, the New Mexico EnvironmentDepartment required the Department of Energy (DOE) to cease all injection operationsof treated waters back into the sole source regional drinking water aquifer shared byPueblo de San Ildefonso, Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) and others.

00:04:23

Los Alamos Warns the West Mesa: Stop the Next...

CCNS Update ·

2025/11/20

For over 25 years, Concerned Citizens for Nuclear Safety (CCNS) has fought toprotect surface and groundwater from radioactive, toxic and hazardous contaminationfrom Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). In 2004, that campaign expanded tocontain the co-located perchlorate and chromium plume – contamination that migratedinto the top of the 1,000 foot deep aquifer below LANL, Pueblo de San Ildefonso andthe Española Basin Sole Source Drinking Water Aquifer. Despite federal assurancesand repeated

00:04:26

LANL Reneges on Active Confinement Ventilation...

CCNS Update ·

2025/11/13

Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) continues to neglect its obligations tosafely operate its nuclear weapons facilities in a manner required by laws, orders,guidance and common sense.

00:04:11

Trump’s Threat to Resume Nuclear Testing

CCNS Update ·

2025/11/06

In 1963 John Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev signed the ban on atmosphericnuclear weapons testing, which was extended to a moratorium in 1992 and secured asthe Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty in 1996. The Treaty has been signed by 187states. On October 31 st , United Nations member states voted on a resolution in supportof the Treaty and the global nuclear test moratorium. The United States was the only“no” vote.

00:04:11

Action You Can Take NOW to Stop Nuclear Weapons Testing

CCNS Update ·

2025/10/30

In response to the president’s call to resume testing of nuclear weapons, contactyour two United States Senators to support Senate Resolution 323 that urges theUnited States to lead a global effort to halt and reverse the nuclear arms race.

00:04:37

LANL Declares Tritium Venting Success — Communities...

CCNS Update ·

2025/10/23

The Communities for Clean Water (CCW) coalition is calling on the Departmentof Energy, the National Nuclear Security Administration, Los Alamos NationalLaboratory (LANL), and the New Mexico Environment Department (NMED) toimmediately release all data, monitoring results, and analytical records from the recenttritium venting operation at LANL.

00:04:08

Ban Uranium Weapons Activist Damacio Lopez Receives...

CCNS Update ·

2025/10/16

This month, the International Uranium Film Festival in Berlin honored uraniumweapons expert and activist Damacio A. Lopez with the festival's Honorary LifetimeAchievement Award. For over thirty years, the US Air Force veteran from Socorro, NewMexico has campaigned for an international ban on depleted uranium munitions andweapons.

00:04:14

New Article about “Participatory Democracy in Action”...

CCNS Update ·

2025/10/08

In an essay for NYU’s Democracy Project, David F. Levi, a former federal judgeand director emeritus of the Bolch Judicial Institute at Duke Law, reflected on thenegotiations he facilitated in New Mexico about the renewal of the hazardous wastepermit for the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP), a deep geologic repository forplutonium-contaminated waste generated in the fabrication of nuclear weapons. JudgeLevi’s essay is entitled “Participatory Democracy in Action.”

00:04:23

Global Majority of State Parties Now Signed onto the...

CCNS Update ·

2025/10/01

On September 26 th , 2025, during the United Nations General Assembly in NewYork City, the Republic of Ghana ratified the Treaty on the Prohibition of NuclearWeapons (TPNW), and the Country of Kyrgyzstan signed on. With these actions, aglobal majority of countries have signed onto the United Nations nuclear weapons bantreaty. A total of 99 out of the 197 eligible states have taken legal action - 74 haveratified and 25 have signed. Such action sends a strong message to the nuclear-armedstates and

00:04:17

Call to Action: Short Time for U.S. Senate to Protect...

CCNS Update ·

2025/09/25

The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board is a small, independent federalagency that serves as a watchdog for the Department of Energy’s nuclear weaponscomplex. It is supposed to have five members, but it currently has only two. And onemember’s term expires on October 18 th . If one or more board positions aren’t filled on orbefore October 18 th , the Safety Board will no longer have a quorum to operate. Thepublic needs the Board to continue its vital nuclear safety mission at the DOE

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