New Mexico & El Paso
In March, the New Mexico Supreme Court issued a stunning and puzzling decision in its long-awaited review of the Copper Rule. The case could set precedent for how the State of New Mexico protects water at all industrial sites.
New Mexico’s Environment Department is pushing through a discharge permit for New Mexico Copper Corp.’s Copper Flat Mine that relies on incomplete and inaccurate information and does not account for impacts to surface and groundwater. Your deadline to comment is May 4.
On April 2, The Las Cruces City Council passed a resolution to obtain 25% of the city’s electricity from renewable energy by 2022, 30% by 2030, and 100% by 2050.
Most of the progress made in the 2018 New Mexico legislative session stopped at the governor’s desk. But some bright spots give hope for better outcomes under a new governor in 2019.
New Mexico’s Public Regulation Commission on March 21 approved Southwestern Public Service’s massive 1.2-gigawatt wind-energy project in New Mexico and west Texas.
Join us Friday May 4 for Sierra Club and Root Beer this Friday with Carlos Bustos, Water Conservation Program manager for the Albuquerque Bernalillo County Water Utility Authority.
Holtec International has a controversial plan to store up to 100,000 tons of the nation’s most dangerous nuclear-reactor waste, for as long as 120 years, at a site between Hobbs and Carlsbad. More than 10,000 rail cars of high-level radioactive waste will be dumped on New Mexico if this project is approved. Opponents are concerned about the health, safety, transportation, financial, and environmental-justice aspects of storing high-level radioactive waste that would impact thousands of generations to come.
“Our land is not their pay toilet” By John Buchser, Chapter Water chair Thanks to citizen lobbying at the Roundhouse, 30 legislators signed on to letters objecting to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s inadequate public-comment period on a proposed dump for high-level
Trip report for the April 21 Excursiones a la Naturaleza de Nuevo Mexico hike to the Eye of the Sandias.
As of midnight April 23, over 400,000 people registered overwhelming opposition to the Trump Administration’s evisceration of the BLM methane rules that would have drastically cut oil and gas waste and pollution