Media
RECA in the News
2025
July
Article – https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/07/16/trinity-test-radiation-nuclear-bomb-compensation-cancer/84608252007/
Article – https://www.abc15.com/news/local-news/advocates-for-arizona-radiation-exposure-victims-score-big-win-in-congress
Article – https://www.thebee.news/mohave-county-downwinders-celebrate-landmark-victory-with-expanded-reca-benefits-after-thirty-years-of-advocacy/
Article – https://azmirror.com/briefs/revival-of-program-to-compensate-families-sickened-by-uranium-included-in-senate-tax-bill/
June
January
2024
August
Article – https://www.sltrib.com/news/2024/08/15/congressional-bickering-over-recas/ (includes quotes from Laura)
Article – https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-pollution-atsdr-landfill/
April
March
Article – https://cronkitenews.jmc.asu.edu/clients/?p=167308
Article – https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/senate-hawleys-urging-passes-bill-compensate-exposed-nuclear/story?id=107898527&cid=social_twitter_abcn
Article – https://abcnews.go.com/amp/GMA/News/untold-oppenheimer-story-female-activists-fighting-justice-after/story?id=107849537
Article – https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/07/politics/senate-funding-for-radiation-exposure-victims/index.html
Article – https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/07/us/politics/senate-nuclear-waste-exposure-fund.html
Article – https://www.npr.org/2024/03/07/1236721042/generations-after-trinity-test-new-mexico-downwinders-seek-compensation
Article – https://www.newsweek.com/map-nuclear-radiation-exposure-states-reca-1876986
2023
November
Article – https://kslnewsradio.com/2056568/downwinders-affected-by-radiation-exposure-call-on-lawmakers-to-extend-compensation/
Article – https://www.deseret.com/2023/11/6/23949902/the-clock-is-ticking-downwinders-call-for-congressional-aid-to-fallout-victims
Video – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxXcQ6mhUUY
October
September
- Article – https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/4214711-hawley-lujan-call-on-house-to-pass-ndaa-amendment-expanding-radiation-compensation/
- Article – https://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_news/political-leaders-radiation-victims-rally-to-expand-compensation/article_5d69f0cc-5649-11ee-b37d-2fb968e7775b.html
- Article – https://nmpoliticalreport.com/2023/09/21/lawmakers-community-members-say-reca-expansion-is-needed-to-help-the-unknowing-unwilling-uncompensated-victims-of-the-cold-war/
- Article – https://www.krqe.com/news/new-mexico/new-mexicans-advocate-for-trinity-site-radiation-exposure-compensation-in-d-c/
- Article – https://www.abqjournal.com/news/luj-n-leger-fern-ndez-and-new-mexicans-affected-by-fallout-urge-legislators-to-expand/article_a4222d70-57ea-11ee-9489-e78dda95b595.html
- Article – https://www.krwg.org/krwg-news/2023-09-20/u-s-lawmakers-drum-up-support-for-radiation-exposure-compensation-act
- Article – https://www.kob.com/new-mexico/looming-government-shutdown-impacts-passing-of-reca-amendment/
- Article – https://kansasreflector.com/2023/09/20/americans-sickened-by-radioactive-waste-press-congress-for-action-on-assistance/
- Article – https://spectrumlocalnews.com/mo/st-louis/news/2023/09/20/nuclear-radiation-advocates-rally-in-washington
- Article – https://responsiblestatecraft.org/trinity-nuclear-test/
- Article – https://www.wpsdlocal6.com/news/sen-josh-hawley-of-missouri-advocacy-groups-rally-for-government-to-cover-nuclear-contamination-costs/article_78930afc-57f0-11ee-8a38-2b6db263aa22.html
- Article – https://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article279567949.html
- Article – https://www.ksdk.com/article/news/special-reports/radioactive/st-louis-county-nuclear-waste-federal-compensation/63-d1155230-509d-44af-ae73-2f6d957ea9a7
- Article – https://sierranevadaally.org/2023/09/03/we-are-still-living-with-the-consequences-of-oppenheimers-bomb/
August
July
- Article – https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/us-senators-seek-expanded-compensation-exposed-nuclear-fallout-100798790
- Article – https://www.abqjournal.com/news/opinion-us-must-be-accountable-for-nuclear-testing-exposure/article_e68eea72-f1ca-5443-9133-e11d3bd0df1e.html
- Article – https://www.crapo.senate.gov/media/newsreleases/crapos-amendment-to-strengthen-radiation-exposure-compensation-act-included-in-defense-bill