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Under Fire: Las Conchas Continues to Burn. What’s Next?

“Doug Meiklejohn, the executive director of the New Mexico Environmental Law Center, shares [Joni] Arends’ fear that the fire could burn radioactive material and release it into the air. But he also has a second concern: erosion of the contaminated soil near the canyons where waste was once dumped. ‘Fire makes the soil less stable,‘ Meiklejohn explains. ‘When it rains, the soil in the canyons can go into the Rio Grande.‘“ Santa Fe Reporter

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