Southwest Research and Information Center

The uranium impact assessment program provides multi-faceted assistance to communities impacted by uranium development. Two projects are the navajo birth cohort study/echo, and thinking zinc, collaborative studies to better understand the relationship between uranium exposures and birth outcomes and early developmental delays on the navajo nation. The collaborative includes sric, university of new mexico community environmental health program, navajo area indian health service, navajo nation division of health, and national institutes of health and niehs. The websites, http://www.sric.org/nbcs/index.php and http://sric.org/zinc/index.php provide extensive Information.

The coalition for clean affordable energyenergy (ccae) is composed of a dozen new mexico non-profit organizations established in 1997 to promote clean, renewable energy in new mexico at a reasonable cost to consumers.ccae uses strategically focused political action, legal advocacy, scientific analysis, grassroots organizing, and public education and communication to advance clean energy policy and programs. Ccae represents the thousands of people in its member organizations in numerous proceedings before the new mexico public regulation commission.

The nuclear waste program provides technical assistance to community groups and Information to the publice and policymakers regarding nuclear weapons production facilities in new mexico, and nuclear waste facilities, especially wipp in new mexico and sites that ship to wipp. The website httpwwwsricorgnuclearindexphp provides extensive Information. The nuclear watch of new mexico project through comprehensive Research, public education and effective citizen action promotes safety and environmental protection; diversification away from nuclear weapons programs; greater accountability and cleanup in the nationwide nuclear weapons complex; and consistent u.s. Leadership toward a world free of nuclear weapons. The website, www.nukewatch.org,provides extensive Information about nuclear issues.

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