by NMELC | Apr 5, 2024 | NMELC in the News
April 5, 2024
by Jessica Carranza Pino
El Defensor Chieftain
Judge Roscoe Woods, Seventh Judicial District Court Judge, denied the application from the Augustin Plains Ranch LLC to pump 54,000 acre feet of water a year from the San Agustin Plains basin at the Catron County Court house this morning, April 5, in Reserve, New Mexico.
There was standing room only with over one hundred people present at the hearing in protest as lawyers shared their arguments for almost five hours. …
by NMELC | Apr 4, 2024 | NMELC in the News
April 4, 2024
A push for nuclear power is fueling demand for uranium, spurring the opening of new mines. The industry says new technologies will eliminate pollution from uranium mining, but its toxic legacy, particularly in the U.S. Southwest, leaves many wary of an incipient mining boom. …
by NMELC | Mar 24, 2024 | NMELC in the News
March 24, 2024
By Eric Jantz, Allbuquerque resident and Teracita Keyanna, Gallup resident
They look like small mesas — indistinguishable, really, from the buttes and juniper-dotted hills that are common features on New Mexico’s landscape.
Rather than being part of a landscape that reflects the ebb and flow that millennia of seasons have sculpted into the Earth, however, these mounds of uranium mining waste are obelisks memorializing the point at which humanity completely divested itself of its moral compass and put its faith in the destructive power of the atom. …
by NMELC | Mar 21, 2024 | NMELC in the News
March 21, 2024
By Griffin Rushton, KOB TV 4
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — MacKenzie Scott, the ex-wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, has awarded 10 New Mexico organizations a total of $20 million through her Yield Giving foundation. …
For the folks at the New Mexico Environmental Law Center, $2 million is keeping their fight alive.
“I literally was just in disbelief, and in tears, or just feeling some of that weight being lifted off my shoulders,” said Virginia Necochea, executive director of the New Mexico Environmental Law Center. …
by NMELC | Mar 21, 2024 | News, Press Releases
NMELC is One of 10 Nonprofits in the State to be Selected
For Immediate Release
Thursday, March 21, 2024
ALBUQUERQUE—Mackenzie Scott’s charity, Yield Giving, announced this week that New Mexico Environmental Law Center was selected among thousands of organizations across the nation to receive a gift of $2 million from the Yield Giving Open Call. …
