On July 25th, Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman announced that the preferred alternative in the Final Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the Moab Uranium Millsite is to load the 12 million tons of radioactive wastes on trains and carry them to a new disposal cell thirty miles away from their present location on the bank of the Colorado River.  It was a day for celebration at the Trust, where we have worked toward this outcome for nearly a decade, but we never could have achieved it without literally thousands of private and institutional partners who commented on the Department of Energy’s plans and, in doing so, changed the agency’s mind.  The passion and creativity of citizens made our democracy work the way it is supposed to, protecting the water supply for the southwest at the same time.  It is a story worth telling because, today, the rights of Americans to participate in the decisions of their government through processes afforded by laws such as the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) are under broad assault. For more in depth information please click here: atlas-cleanup

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