[CPEO-MEF] REGULATION, RADIATION: "Cover-up and Collusion at the Sandia National Labs" (NM)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Cover-up and Collusion at the Sandia National Laboratory Corral

By STEPHANIE HILLER
La Jicarita
April 11, 2013

In a world with few heroes, Dave McCoy is a warrior for environmental  
justice who never gives up. For seven years he has been fighting for  
public protection from the toxic brew that fills the two and a half  
acre pit on the property of Sandia National Laboratory. He believes  
that the radioactive and chemical wastes in the Mixed Waste Landfill  
are being improperly managed and monitored, and that these nasty  
elements are destined to pollute Albuquerque’s water supply.

McCoy, an environmental lawyer and executive director of Citizen  
Action, Albuquerque, has plenty of evidence that the trickle down  
effect has begun. But his efforts to get the landfill excavated have  
been repeatedly blocked by a bureaucracy operating in collusion with  
a giant military corporation for whom profit is the commanding  
principle of operation.

The bureaucracy is the New Mexico Environment Department (NMED) with  
its allies in the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The  
corporation is the nation's biggest and most powerful weapons  
manufacture, the Lockheed Corporation, which runs Sandia Lab for the  
Department of Energy.  Citizen Action, formed by Sue Dayton in the  
early 2000s to represent public concerns regarding the management of  
the landfill, has torn into the blanket of denials and deceptions  
that have wrapped around nuclear industry since the days of the  
Manhattan Project.

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For the entire article, see
http://lajicarita.wordpress.com/2013/04/11/cover-up-and-collusion-at- 
the-sandia-national-laboratory-corral/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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