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Uranium Poisoning, Downwinders, and the Age of Sciencephobia

Uranium Poisoning, Downwinders, and the Age of Sciencephobia

May 8, 2017 By V.B. Price 1 Comment

Nuclear testing and uranium mining during much of the cold war and its lunatic arms race left New Mexico, the Four Corners Region, and some say the whole country, more or less, contaminated by blast fallout from atmospheric testing of nuclear weapons and airborne mining dust that has sickened and killed, and is still killing, […]

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Chaco Canyon, Otero Mesa, and the Sacrifice of the American West

Chaco Canyon, Otero Mesa, and the Sacrifice of the American West

February 6, 2017 By V.B. Price

Water, land and respect – those are three imperatives for a life worth living in New Mexico and in the desert Southwest. All three will be under attack from arch-conservative Washington over the next four years. A climate change waffler with no management experience will run the $21 billion budget of the Department of the […]

Filed Under: Columns Tagged With: Chaco Canyon, Donald Trump, Environment, Otero Mesa, Southwest

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