U.S. Rep. Ben Ray Luján Continues To Fight For Those Impacted By Radiation Exposure
See original Los Alamos Daily Post article HERE. Submitted by Carol A. Clark on May 9, 2018 - 9:16am U.S. Rep. Ben Ray Luján From the Office of U.S. Rep. Ben Ray Luján: WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Rep. Ben Ray Luján (D-NM) submitted four amendments today to the House Rules Committee to expand compensation for those impacted by exposure to radiation while working in uranium mines or living downwind from atomic weapons tests. Luján’s amendments included the full Radiation Exposure
LUJÁN CONTINUES TO FIGHT FOR THOSE IMPACTED BY RADIATION EXPOSURE
To see original story, visit HERE. May 8, 2018 [WASHINGTON, D.C.] – Congressman Ben Ray Luján (D-NM) submitted four amendments today to the House Rules Committee to expand compensation for those impacted by exposure to radiation while working in uranium mines or living downwind from atomic weapons tests. Luján’s amendments included the fullRadiation Exposure Compensation Act Amendments(RECA), which he introduced last year, and provisions of that bill to expand RECA’s downwind


Acid West Book Event with Joshua Wheeler
Join us at the UNM Bookstore on Wednesday, May 2, 2018, at 12PM to hear Joshua Wheeler speak about his new book, Acid West. Early on July 16, 1945, Joshua Wheeler’s great grandfather awoke to a flash, and then a long rumble: the world’s first atomic blast filled the horizon north of his ranch in Alamogordo, New Mexico. Out on the range, the cattle had been bleached white by the fallout. Acid West, Wheeler’s stunning debut collection of essays, is full of these mutated cows: v