by NMELC | Feb 12, 2016 | News, NMELC in the News
“Right now I don’t think it’s hyperbole to say that the oil and gas industry in New Mexico is essentially self-regulating,” said Eric Jantz, an attorney with the New Mexico Environmental Law Center… “Oil and gas brings out its lobbyists and gets people from the oil patch to come and testify and spreads money around.” […]
by NMELC | Jan 21, 2016 | News, NMELC in the News
The notice mailed Wednesday notes the lab missed a December final deadline for completion of Los Alamos clean-up work and hasn’t asked for an extension of the now-expired schedule that was set a decade ago. That makes DOE and Los Alamos National Security LLC (LANS), the lab’s private manager, liable for civil penalties and subject […]
by NMELC | Dec 7, 2015 | News, NMELC in the News
Earth Matters co-producer and Gila Resources Information Project Executive Director Allyson Siwik talks about critical New Mexico water resource issues with Doug Meiklejohn, attorney, Executive Director and founder of the NM Environmental Law Center, a non-profit, public interest law firm that provides free and low-cost legal services on environmental matters throughout New Mexico. GMCR.orgGot to […]
by NMELC | Oct 14, 2014 | Stories
The drive from Anthony, NM to Santa Fe is about four and a half hours. Imagine driving there and back just so you could talk to the people who will decide what happens in your backyard. That’s what Maria Elena Bejarano and Betty Gonzalez did just to be a part of...
by NMELC | Sep 15, 2014 | News, Press Releases
Albuquerque, NM – Yesterday, the SouthWest Organizing Project (SWOP) filed a complaint with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) against the City of Albuquerque and Bernalillo County under Title VI of the U.S. Civil Rights Act of 1964. The complaint, submitted by the non-profit New Mexico Environmental Law Center, asserts that local decision-makers “have demonstrated […]