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The Global Warming Express, the award-winning, By Kids/For Kids climate science, arts and advocacy program for elementary school kids in New Mexico, is looking for 7 new, after-school mentors for the 2018/19 school year ...
Chaco's surprise reprieve 
In an unanticipated move, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke cancelled a March lease auction of 4,454 acres in Greater Chaco to oil and gas companies ...
NM Supreme Court upholds water-sacrifice zones
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 ...
Legislative roundup 2018: Governor nixes solar credit
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 approves 1,200 MW of wind energy
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 ...
Residents across state speak out about proposed high-level nuclear dump in SE New Mexico

“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 nuclear fuel rods between Carlsbad and Hobbs.

The commission said the Legislature could comment on the full environmental-impact statement after it is released in a year or so. That makes it even more important for the public to comment during the 60-day scoping period that ends May 29.

The proposal to store spent fuel from all the nation’s nuclear reactors has many problems. One of the most critical is that of poorly designed transport casks that are too heavy for ...

Hundreds of Thousand Oppose Evisceration of BLM Methane Rule
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 ...
Advisory: Residents kick off tour alerting New Mexicans of dangers of radioactive-waste dump

10,000 train cars of nuclear waste to proposed Holtec site near Carlsbad and Hobbs — a train wreck waiting to happen

For immediate release: April 9, 2018. Disponible para entrevistas en español

Albuquerque, NM — On Tuesday in Albuquerque, community members will kick of a tour of the state with a mock radioactive waste canister to highlight the dangers of shipping and storing the nation’s most radioactive nuclear-reactor waste in New Mexico.

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. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission will accept public comments through May 29 and hold public meetings. In response, community members ...