New Mexicans Respond to Expiration of Radiation Act

Proposed federal legislation that would have compensated New Mexicans harmed by military tests is in jeopardy. That’s after the U.S. House failed to act by last week’s deadline on a bipartisan Senate measure designed to extend and expand the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (called “RECA”). U.S. lawmakers originally passed RECA in 1990 but the act has never addressed the suffering of people affected by the 1945 Trinity bomb test in South Central New Mexico. Read the full story here: https://www.ksfr.org/environment/2024-06-14/new-mexicans-respond-to-expiration-of-radiation-act