New Mexico officials announced a $16-million fine and other actions against the U.S. Energy Dept. for failing to “prioritize” cleanup and disposal of legacy nuclear and chemical waste from research and former weapon component production at the giant Los Alamos National Laboratory near Santa Fe, dating to World War II.State environment department Secretary James Kenney also ordered on Feb.11 a revision of the estimated 25,000-acre site's disposal permit for the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, the underground federal repository for defense-related transuranic waste near Carlsbad, N.M.—to increase the volume of future Los Alamos waste disposals there. The action, considered a rare state move, stems from what New Mexico terms a “longstanding lack of urgency” in legacy waste remediation, said a department statement.…