N.M. counties to exit struggling coalition on Los Alamos

摘要

New Mexico's Santa Fe is the latest county to vote to withdraw from the Regional Coalition of Los AlamosNational Laboratory Communities, a group of nine local governments in New Mexico that advocate forenvironmental cleanup funding and jobs at the lab.Santa Fe County's board of county commissioners on Tuesday voted unanimously to leave the coalition, daysafter the Taos County's board of commissioners voted 4-1 to withdraw.The exodus occurs as the coalition struggles with funding and leadership. It has lacked an executive directorsince last year and lost its federal backing over concerns that funding was improperly used for lobbying.