Backroom Deal Ignores Public Safety: Oil and Gas Proposes Overturning Produced Water Prohibition
Since 2022, New Mexico Environment Department staff have worked to develop a science-based rule for reuse of treated and untreated produced water outside oil and gas operations. Produced water is a highly toxic waste generated by oil and gas production ... Read More
Water Rights Transfer for Copper Flat Mine Reopening Denied by State Engineer
The State Engineer issued her decision on August 20 denying Tulla Resources’ application to transfer water rights needed to reopen the Copper Flat Mine near Hillsboro in southern New Mexico. The State Engineer noted the effects of climate change on ... Read More
La Mancha Wetlands Restoration Project
What was once a concrete dumpsite in the drought-stricken southwest became a four-acre oasis, known as La Mancha Wetlands, along the Rio Grande near Las Cruces. The La Mancha Restoration Project, a vision of Kevin Bixby who then lead Southwest ... Read More
Victory for ban on Produced Water Discharge to New Mexico’s Ground and Surface Waters
Over the course of the last year and a half, the Sierra Club Rio Grande Chapter and Amigos Bravos, represented by the Western Environmental Law Center’s Tannis Fox, took part in a critical rulemaking for New Mexico’s clean water supply ... Read More
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