by NMELC | Mar 27, 2020 | News
On March 26, the EPA’s Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance issued a memo – effective retroactively to March 13 – outlining the steps industries could take to gain exemption from compliance with their environmental and public health...
by NMELC | Mar 25, 2020 | NMELC in the News
“Los Alamos National Laboratory will release radioactive vapors into the atmosphere to ventilate several barrels of tritium-tainted waste generated during the Cold War … Lab personnel will ventilate one container at a time and filter the released vapors through...
by NMELC | Mar 12, 2020 | News
On Monday March 23, Governor Lujan Grisham ordered all non-essential businesses, including nonprofits, to close and staff to work from home where possible. The Law Center is considered an “essential” business but staff have been working remotely since...
by NMELC | Mar 2, 2020 | News, NMELC in the News
The Santa Fe New Mexican published an article on Saturday February 29 discussing how the new “waters of the United States” (WOTUS) rule could lead to less regulation of stormwater from Los Alamos National Laboratory and in Los Alamos County. Law Center...
by NMELC | Feb 11, 2020 | News
On February 11th, Senator Udall (D-NM) and Representative Lowenthal (D-CA) introduced the Break Free From Plastic Pollution Act – groundbreaking legislation that tackles the plastic pollution crisis head on. The act calls for a national bottle bill, bans certain...
