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  • 1 week ago | abqjournal.com | Cathy Cook

    Legislation to expand a program that compensates people who got sick after experiencing atomic radiation from nuclear bomb tests or uranium mining could have a new chance at passage, but Sen. Ben Ray Luján, who has advocated for the program since he was first elected, will likely vote against it. Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., got a Radiation Exposure Compensation Act extension and expansion added to the base text of the Senate budget bill. It would include New Mexico downwinders for the first time.

  • 1 week ago | yahoo.com | Cathy Cook

    Jun. 16—A bill meant to give fentanyl traffickers more prison sentences and make it easier to research copycat drugs is headed to President Donald Trump's desk after it passed the House Thursday. Sen. Martin Heinrich, D-N.M., sponsored the HALT Fentanyl Act with Republican Sens. Bill Cassidy and Chuck Grassley to permanently classify fentanyl-related substances as Schedule I under the Controlled Substances Act.

  • 1 week ago | abqjournal.com | Cathy Cook

    A bill meant to give fentanyl traffickers more prison sentences and make it easier to research copycat drugs is headed to President Donald Trump’s desk after it passed the House Thursday. Sen. Martin Heinrich, D-N.M., sponsored the HALT Fentanyl Act with Republican Sens. Bill Cassidy and Chuck Grassley to permanently classify fentanyl-related substances as Schedule I under the Controlled Substances Act.

  • 1 week ago | abqjournal.com | Cathy Cook |Dan Boyd

    An Albuquerque company is at the center of President Donald Trump’s mass deportation push. Earlier this year, CSI Aviation entered into a lucrative contract with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to provide “relocation” flights. kAm%96 7=:89ED 2C6 ?@E =62G:?8 7C@> p=3FBF6CBF6 — @C @E96C =@42E:@?D :?

  • 2 weeks ago | larac.org.uk | Cathy Cook

    After spending some time this week looking through the applications for LARACs scholarship programme, it makes me very proud to see the levels of excellence coming through into the industry. The scholarship programme has been running for a number of years and provides those who are new to the industry an opportunity to attend the UK Conference for free, whilst also gaining some additional support in the form of collaboration and a site visit to see first-hand how WEEE recycling woks in practice.

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