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EPA Repeal of Water Rule Threatens New Mexico’s Waters and Communities

by Michael Jensen | Sep 13, 2019 | News, Press Releases

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Army Corps of Engineers repealed the 2015 Obama-era Rule that clarified the definition of “Waters of the US” (WOTUS). Waters that are included in WOTUS receive protection under the Clean Water Act. The...

Public Comments about Sandia National Laboratories’ Mixed Waste Landfill Five-Year Report

by Michael Jensen | Aug 13, 2019 | News

Sandia National Laboratories’ (“Sandia”) Five-Year Review proposes that planning and implementation for excavation and offsite disposal of radioactive and toxic chemical wastes in the Mixed Waste Landfill (MWL) is feasible and that if directed to undertake excavation...

Church Rock, America’s Forgotten Nuclear Disaster

by Michael Jensen | Aug 13, 2019 | News, NMELC in the News

Early in the summer of 1979, Larry King, an underground surveyor at the United Nuclear Corporation’s Church Rock Uranium mine in New Mexico, began noticing something unusual when looking at the south side of the tailings dam. That massive earthen wall was...

McKinley Uranium Working Group Gains/Loses County Commission Support

by Michael Jensen | Jul 30, 2019 | News, Press Releases

On July 30, Percy Anderson and Janene Yazzie of the McKinley County Uranium Working Group, which has been seeking County Commission support for a Blue Ribbon Task Force to study the impacts of uranium mining in the County, appeared to get support from two of the three...

District Court Denies Augustin Plains Ranch Application – Again!

by Michael Jensen | Jul 25, 2019 | News, Press Releases

In a brief Memorandum, 7thJudicial District Court Judge Matthew Reynolds granted the Motions for Summary Judgment filed by the New Mexico Environmental Law Center for approximately 80 residents of the San Agustin Plains and by the Catron County Board of County...
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