Federal officials have backtracked on plans to cancel a lease for office space in New Mexico where dozens of U.S. Department of Energy employees who oversee the nation’s only underground nuclear waste repository are based.
The move came Thursday after U.S. Rep. Gabe Vasquez and other members of the state’s congressional delegation raised concerns, noting the importance of the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant to the nation's multibillion-dollar effort to clean up tons of waste from decades of bomb-making and nuclear research.
